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Senate Bill S1199

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires schools to provide supplemental instructional after school programs for pupils with autism spectrum disorder

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2009-S1199 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3204, Ed L

2009-S1199 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires schools to provide supplemental instructional after school programs for pupils with autism spectrum disorder.

2009-S1199 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1199 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1199

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- 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 providing supplemental
  instructional after school programs for pupils  with  autism  spectrum
  disorder

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 4-a of section 3204 of the  education  law,  as
added by chapter 53 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
  4-a. Special education. A. Every pupil, having been determined to be a
"child with a handicapping condition" by a committee on the handicapped,
shall  be offered an opportunity to receive the benefits of an appropri-
ate public education as prescribed in article eighty-nine of this  chap-
ter.
  B.  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT RECEIVING STATE
FUNDS SHALL PROVIDE A SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL  AFTER  SCHOOL  PROGRAM
FOR  PUPILS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND MAY CONTRACT WITH A BOARD
OF COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES  OR  ANOTHER  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  TO
PROVIDE  SUCH  AN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM, PROVIDED THAT IN A CITY HAVING A
POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, THE  COMMUNITY  SCHOOL  BOARDS  SHALL
PROVIDE  SUCH  PROGRAM  IN  THE SCHOOLS WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTIONS. SUCH
SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION SHALL BE TAUGHT BY A TEACHER OR INSTRUCTOR  WHO
HAS  BEEN  CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION THREE THOU-
SAND FOUR OF THIS TITLE IN THE AREA OF AUTISTIC NEEDS. FOR THE  PURPOSES
OF  THIS SUBDIVISION, "AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER" MEANS A NEUROBIOLOGICAL
CONDITION THAT INCLUDES AUTISM, ASPERGER SYNDROME, RETT'S  SYNDROME,  OR
PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04871-01-9

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