Assembly Bill A396

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours

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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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2023-A396 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3143
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4402, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8667, S7745
2025-2026: S4870

2023-A396 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours.

2023-A396 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    396
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BURDICK,  GALLAHAN, MEEKS, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON,
   SANTABARBARA, J. A. GIGLIO, LUNSFORD, HEVESI, SAYEGH -- read once  and
   referred to the Committee on Education
 
 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:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 4402 of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by chapter 273 of the laws of 1986, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   c. (1) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to prohib-
 it  a committee on special education from recommending a special service
 or program specified in  paragraph  d  of  subdivision  two  of  section
 forty-four  hundred  one  of  this  [chapter] ARTICLE or to diminish the
 power of the commissioner to make appointments pursuant  to  such  para-
 graph.
   (2)   PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT WHERE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OR TRUSTEES
 IN FURNISHING SUITABLE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISA-
 BILITIES HAS SELECTED AS ONE OF  THE  MOST  REASONABLE  AND  APPROPRIATE
 SPECIAL SERVICES OR PROGRAMS FOR SUCH CHILDREN FROM THOSE PROGRAMS SPEC-
 IFIED  IN  PARAGRAPH  N OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED
 ONE OF THIS ARTICLE UPON RECEIPT OF THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE  COMMITTEE
 ON  SPECIAL  EDUCATION, THE PROVISION OF TRANSITION SERVICES, IN PARTIC-
 ULAR VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS  APPROVED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  OR  BY
 ANOTHER STATE AGENCY SHALL BE PERMITTED TO OCCUR IN THE LAST THREE YEARS
 OF SECONDARY EDUCATION OF A STUDENT WITH DISABILITY DURING SCHOOL HOURS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01129-01-3

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