Assembly Bill A1492

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides that students who have an IEP shall not be required to take more than one regents examination in any given day

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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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2021-A1492 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3952
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §319, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6736, S4296, S6946
2011-2012: A3289, S2503
2013-2014: A2765, S488
2015-2016: A5270, S1501
2017-2018: A4790, S1828
2019-2020: A1397, S573
2023-2024: A168
2025-2026: A1131

2021-A1492 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that students who have an IEP shall not be required to take more than one regents examination in any given day.

2021-A1492 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1492
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the administration  of
   exams to students with disabilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds that
 certain students with disabilities are  allowed  extended  testing  time
 according  to their individual education program, or perhaps even accom-
 modations provided pursuant to regulations promulgated under section 504
 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The legislature  further  finds  that
 these  students,  as a result of this extended time allowance, are being
 subjected to ten or eleven straight  hours  of  testing  when  they  are
 required to take two regents exams on the same date.
   The  legislature  acknowledges  the department of education's need for
 security concerning the substance  of  the  examination.  As  such,  the
 legislature  understands  the department's continuing hesitance to allow
 these students with disabilities to take the exams on  days  other  than
 which they had been officially scheduled.
   However, the benefits of providing these children with respite between
 each exam far outweighs the potential of one of these students garnering
 information about the exam from another student who had previously taken
 the  exam.  Therefore,  it is the intent of this legislature to have the
 commissioner of education implement  a  process  whereby  students  with
 certain  disabilities  are  not  required  to take more than one regents
 examination in any given day.
   § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 319 to  read
 as follows:
   §  319.  EXAMINATION  OF  STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. THE COMMISSIONER
 SHALL PROMULGATE REGULATIONS ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES WHICH PROVIDE  THAT
 ANY  CHILD  WHO HAS EXTENDED TESTING TIME PROVISIONS ON HIS OR HER INDI-

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

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