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Assembly Bill A10126

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to the ACT assessment

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2013-A10126 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง342, Ed L

2013-A10126 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the ACT assessment; requires that they only have to disclose test contents four times a year.

2013-A10126 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10126

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 16, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick,
  Lalor) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the disclosure of test
  contents

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

  Section  1.  Paragraphs  c, d, e, f and g of subdivision 10 of section
342 of the education law, are relettered paragraphs d, e, f, g and h and
a new paragraph c is added to read as follows:
  (C) SUBDIVISIONS ONE, TWO , THREE FOUR AND SIX OF THIS  SECTION  SHALL
NOT  APPLY  TO  THE  ACT  COLLEGE  ENTRANCE  EXAM,  SO LONG AS ACT, INC.
DISCLOSES IN EACH TESTING YEAR THE GREATER OF:
  (I) THREE TEST FORMS USED TO ADMINISTER THE ACT  IN  REGULAR  ADMINIS-
TRATIONS IN NEW YORK; OR
  (II)  ONE-HALF OF THE NUMBER OF ACT TEST FORMS ADMINISTERED IN REGULAR
ADMINISTRATIONS IN NEW YORK.
  S 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 10 of section  342  of  the  education
law,  as  added by chapter 714 of the laws of 1996, and as relettered by
section one of this act, is amended to read as follows:
  g. For the purposes of this subdivision,  a  "regular"  administration
means  a  regular  Saturday major paper-and-pencil administration of the
SAT I, THE ACT or GRE General Test or a regular Friday major  paper-and-
pencil  administration of the TOEFL. A "regular" administration does not
include any other administration (whether offered on a Friday or  Satur-
day  or  otherwise),  whether a makeup administration, an administration
for Saturday Sabbath observers, or other special-purpose administration,
or any individual administration.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15612-01-4

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