Bill Text: NY S05071 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5071 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to post past common core and other state standardized examinations on the department's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-21 - PRINT NUMBER 5071A [S05071 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05071-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         5071--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 29, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education  --  recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec.  8  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the  commis-
          sioner  to post past common core and other state standardized examina-
          tions on the department's website
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 55 to read as follows:
     3    55. The commissioner shall post all common core examinations and other
     4  examinations  which  have been administered to students statewide on the
     5  department's website in order to provide parents, students,  and  educa-
     6  tors  with  materials  which can be used to practice for future adminis-
     7  trations of such examinations.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04614-02-6