Senate Bill S711

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Establishes the education equity act which provides language assistance to parents/guardians who have children enrolled in public school and who do not speak English

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S711 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2682
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 67 ยงยง3330 - 3339, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1326, A7390
2011-2012: S2718, A5963
2013-2014: S923, A1975
2017-2018: S3206, A1317
2019-2020: S2939, A2179
2021-2022: S1429, A407
2023-2024: S1516, A456

2015-S711 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language

2015-S711 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S711 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   711

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. SERRANO, HASSELL-THOMPSON, SANDERS, SAVINO -- read
  twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
  Committee on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to establishing the
  education equity act

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "education
equity act".
  S 2. The education law is amended by adding a new article 67  to  read
as follows:
                               ARTICLE 67
                          EDUCATION EQUITY ACT
SECTION 3330. DEFINITIONS.
        3331. SCHOOL-BASED LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE PLANS.
        3332. DETERMINATION OF PRIMARY LANGUAGE.
        3333. INTERPRETATION SERVICES REQUIRED.
        3334. TRANSLATION SERVICES REQUIRED.
        3335. NOTICE TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
        3336. CERTIFICATION OF TRANSLATION.
        3337. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WEBSITE.
        3338. REPORTING.
        3339. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
  S  3330.  DEFINITIONS.  WHEREVER  USED  IN THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING
TERMS SHALL HAVE THE RESPECTIVE MEANINGS HEREINAFTER SET FORTH OR  INDI-
CATED:
  1.  COVERED  LANGUAGES.  THE TERM "COVERED LANGUAGES" MEANS TWO OF THE
MOST COMMONLY SPOKEN LANGUAGES, OTHER THAN ENGLISH, BEING SPOKEN  BY  AT
LEAST  TWO PERCENT, ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST PERCENTILE, OF THE POPULATION
IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT WITHIN A CITY, VILLAGE OR TOWN HAVING A  POPULATION

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

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