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Feb 06, 2023 | referred to education |
senate Bill S4244
Sponsored By
Alexis Weik
(R, C) 8th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed/Vetoed by Governor
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S4244 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A5275
- Current Committee:
- Senate Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §340, Ed L
- Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
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S9533
S4244 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4244 SPONSOR: WEIK TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to clarifying the appli- cation of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam PURPOSE: To clarify that the provisions of New York's Trust-in-Testing law shall also apply to GED exams SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: The bill amends the truth-in-testing law to also include the General Education Development, or GED, exam EXISTING LAW:
S4244 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4244 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- 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 clarifying the appli- cation of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 340 of the education law, as amended by chapter 567 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows: 1. "Standardized test" or "test" means: A. any test that is given in New York at the expense of the test subject and designed for use and used in the process of selection for post-secondary or professional school admissions. Such tests shall include, but are not limited to, the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, Scholastic Aptitude Test, ACT Assessment, Graduate Record Examina- tion, Medical College Admission Test, Law School Admission Test, Dental Admission Testing Program, Graduate Management Admission Test, Miller Analogies Test and the Test for Standard Written English. This article shall not apply to any state, federal, or local civil service test, any test used solely for placement, credit-by-examination or other nonadmis- sion purpose or any test developed and administered by an individual school or institution solely for its own purposes or any test, or portion of a test, designed to evaluate manual skills or other physical abilities; AND B. THE GENERAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT EXAM. § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08777-01-3
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