Bill Text: NY S02994 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2994 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires school districts to provide educational and support services to students with disabilities until such students turn twenty-three years of age.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02994 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02994-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2994--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT in relation to requiring school districts to provide educational
          and support services to students with disabilities until such students
          turn twenty-three years of age

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
     2  the  contrary,  in  recognition  of  the  difficulties distance learning
     3  during the coronavirus  (COVID-19) pandemic poses to students with disa-
     4  bilities, and the educational opportunities for students with  disabili-
     5  ties  that  were  lost  or hampered, each New York school district shall
     6  provide educational and support services to students  with  disabilities
     7  in  special  education  programs  and  to pupils who are qualified hand-
     8  icapped persons as defined in the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen
     9  hundred seventy-three, as amended, in accordance with the student's most
    10  recent Individualized Education Program (IEP) until such  student  turns
    11  twenty-three  years of age for the school years 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and
    12  2021-2022.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  the
    14  2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years only.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01699-03-1