Bill Text: NY S03143 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S03143 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S03143-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3143 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MANNION, CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 4402 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 273 of the laws of 1986, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 c. (1) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to prohib- 5 it a committee on special education from recommending a special service 6 or program specified in paragraph d of subdivision two of section 7 forty-four hundred one of this [chapter] article or to diminish the 8 power of the commissioner to make appointments pursuant to such para- 9 graph. 10 (2) Provided, however, that where the board of education or trustees 11 in furnishing suitable educational opportunities for students with disa- 12 bilities has selected as one of the most reasonable and appropriate 13 special services or programs for such children from those programs spec- 14 ified in paragraph n of subdivision two of section forty-four hundred 15 one of this article upon receipt of the recommendation of the committee 16 on special education, the provision of transition services, in partic- 17 ular vocational training programs approved by the department or by 18 another state agency shall be permitted to occur in the last three years 19 of secondary education of a student with disability during school hours. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01129-01-3