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Assembly Bill A1201A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requiring school districts to provide educational and support services to students with disabilities until such students turn twenty-three years of age

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2021-A1201 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2994
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11045, S9059
2023-2024: A3067

2021-A1201 - Summary

Requires school districts to provide educational and support services to students with disabilities until such students turn twenty-three years of age.

2021-A1201 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1201
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ABINANTI, TAYLOR, GALEF, DICKENS, NOLAN, GOTT-
   FRIED, GUNTHER, McMAHON, DINOWITZ, SIMON, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH,  REIL-
   LY, MANKTELOW, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT in relation to requiring school districts to provide educational
   and support services to students with disabilities until such students
   turn twenty-two years of age
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
 the  contrary,  in  recognition  of  the  difficulties distance learning
 during the coronavirus  (COVID-19) pandemic poses to students with disa-
 bilities, and the educational opportunities for students with  disabili-
 ties  that  were  lost  or hampered, each New York school district shall
 provide educational and support services to students  with  disabilities
 in  special  education  programs  and  to pupils who are qualified hand-
 icapped persons as defined in the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen
 hundred seventy-three, as amended, in accordance with the student's most
 recent Individualized Education Program (IEP) until such  student  turns
 twenty-two years of age for the school years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years only.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01699-01-1

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2021-A1201A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2994
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11045, S9059
2023-2024: A3067

2021-A1201A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school districts to provide educational and support services to students with disabilities until such students turn twenty-three years of age.

2021-A1201A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1201--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ABINANTI, TAYLOR, GALEF, DICKENS, NOLAN, GOTT-
   FRIED, GUNTHER, McMAHON, DINOWITZ, SIMON, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH,  REIL-
   LY,  MANKTELOW,  SANTABARBARA,  BARRON,  WOERNER,  GRIFFIN, SEAWRIGHT,
   ZINERMAN, LAWLER, DeSTEFANO, BRAUNSTEIN, ENGLEBRIGHT, KELLES, MAMDANI,
   GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LEMONDES, FORREST, EPSTEIN, ZEBROWSKI  --  Multi-Spon-
   sored  by  --  M. of A.  DURSO, MORINELLO -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT in relation to requiring school districts to provide educational
   and support services to students with disabilities until such students
   turn twenty-three years of age
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
 the  contrary,  in  recognition  of  the  difficulties distance learning
 during the coronavirus  (COVID-19) pandemic poses to students with disa-
 bilities, and the educational opportunities for students with  disabili-
 ties  that  were  lost  or hampered, each New York school district shall
 provide educational and support services to students  with  disabilities
 in  special  education  programs  and  to pupils who are qualified hand-
 icapped persons as defined in the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen
 hundred seventy-three, as amended, in accordance with the student's most
 recent Individualized Education Program (IEP) until such  student  turns
 twenty-three  years of age for the school years 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and
 2021-2022.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  the
 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years only.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01699-02-1

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