Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Oct 23, 2017 |
signed chap.350 |
Oct 11, 2017 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 21, 2017 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.2122 substituted for s4831a |
Jun 20, 2017 |
referred to rules delivered to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.539 rules report cal.539 reported |
Jun 19, 2017 |
reported referred to rules |
Jun 16, 2017 |
print number 6515a |
Jun 16, 2017 |
amend (t) and recommit to ways and means |
Jun 06, 2017 |
reported referred to ways and means |
Mar 08, 2017 |
referred to education |
Assembly Bill A6515A
Signed By Governor2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
NOLAN
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Michael Benedetto
Ellen C. Jaffee
Walter T. Mosley
Matthew Titone
multi-Sponsors
Steven Englebright
2017-A6515 - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S4831
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §4210, Ed L
2017-A6515 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6515 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 8, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- (at request of the State Education Department) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing aid for blind or deaf students in relation to the purchase and use of supports for the education of students who are blind, deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing, learning disabled or print disabled THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4210 of the education law, as amended by chapter 53 of the laws of 1989, paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as amended by chap- ter 53 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows: § 4210. Aid for LEARNING DISABLED, PRINT DISABLED, blind or deaf students. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS: A. "PRINT DISABLED" SHALL MEAN A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO EXPERI- ENCES BARRIERS TO ACCESSING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL IN NONSPECIALIZED FORMATS, INCLUDING AN INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBED IN SECTION 121(D)(2) OF TITLE 17 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. B. "LEARNING DISABLED" SHALL MEAN A PERSON WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY AS DEFINED IN SECTION 602 OF TITLE I OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILI- TIES EDUCATION ACT. 2. a. Whenever a LEARNING DISABLED, PRINT DISABLED, blind or deaf person, who is a citizen of this state and a student in actual attend- ance at a college, university, technical or professional school, includ- ing agriculture and technical institutes and state institutes of applied arts and sciences, [located in this state] and authorized by law to grant OR LICENSED PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED ONE OF THIS TITLE, degrees, other than an institution estab- lished for the regular instruction of the blind or deaf, shall be desig- nated by the trustees thereof as a fit person to receive the aid herein- after provided for, there shall be paid by the state for the use of such EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
Michael Benedetto
Ellen C. Jaffee
Walter T. Mosley
Matthew Titone
multi-Sponsors
Steven Englebright
2017-A6515A (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S4831
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §4210, Ed L
2017-A6515A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6515--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 8, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, BENEDETTO, JAFFEE, MOSLEY, TITONE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- (at request of the State Education Department) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing aid for blind or deaf students in relation to the purchase and use of supports for the education of students who are blind, deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4210 of the education law, as amended by chapter 53 of the laws of 1989, paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as amended by chap- ter 53 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows: § 4210. Aid for blind or deaf students. 1. a. Whenever a blind or deaf person, who is a citizen of this state and a student in actual attend- ance at a college, university, technical or professional school, includ- ing agriculture and technical institutes and state institutes of applied arts and sciences, located in this state and authorized by law to grant degrees, OR LICENSED PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED ONE OF THIS TITLE AND LOCATED IN THIS STATE, other than an institution established for the regular instruction of the blind or deaf, shall be designated by the trustees thereof as a fit person to receive the aid hereinafter provided for, there shall be paid by the state for the use of such student a sum not to exceed [one] FOUR thou- sand dollars per annum, SUBJECT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER IN REGULATIONS AND within the limits of the appropri- ation therefor, with which to [employ persons to read to such blind student] PROVIDE SUCH STUDENTS WITH SUPPORT TO READ, INCLUDING THE EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS TO READ TO SUCH STUDENT AND/OR THE PURCHASE OF EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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