Bill Text: NY S03143 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3143

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.
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