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Assembly Bill A1180

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to vision testing of students for hyperopia within six months of admission to the school

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2015-A1180 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง905, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10225
2013-2014: A2487

2015-A1180 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that all students who enroll in a school of this state shall be vision tested for hyperopia within six months of admission to school.

2015-A1180 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1180

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to vision screening of
  students

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  905 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 477 of the laws  of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  4.  Vision  screening  examinations of students in the schools of this
state made pursuant to subdivision one of this section, or made pursuant
to the by-laws, regulations or practices of the board  of  education  of
the  city  school  district of the city of New York, shall be subject to
the provisions of this subdivision, and where inconsistent herewith, the
provisions of this subdivision shall prevail. In addition to any  vision
screening examinations otherwise required by the provisions or practices
cited  in  this subdivision, all students who enroll in a school of this
state shall be tested for color perception, HYPEROPIA,  distance  acuity
and near vision within six months of admission to the school, or by such
other  date as may be prescribed in the regulations of the commissioner.
The results of any such  vision  screening  examinations,  whether  made
pursuant  to this subdivision or pursuant to the provisions or practices
cited in this subdivision, shall be in writing and shall be made  avail-
able  to  the student's parent or person in parental relation and to any
teacher of the student within the school while the student  is  enrolled
in  the  school, and shall be kept in a permanent file of the school for
at least as long as the minimum retention period for  such  records,  as
prescribed  by the commissioner pursuant to article fifty-seven-A of the
arts and cultural affairs law.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  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.
                                                           LBD02863-01-5

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