S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3494
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to sufficient documenta-
tion that a student enrolled in or admitted to an institution of high-
er education has a disability
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Article 3 of the education law is amended by adding a new
part 2 to read as follows:
PART II
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES POLICY AND DOCUMENTATION
§ 150. STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES POLICY AND DOCUMENTATION.
§ 150. STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES POLICY AND DOCUMENTATION. 1. EACH
INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION SHALL ADOPT A POLICY THAT DOCUMENTATION
OF AN INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM (IEP) IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION
614(D) OF THE FEDERAL INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT, WHICH
IS SUBMITTED BY AN ENROLLED OR ADMITTED STUDENT, IS SUFFICIENT TO ESTAB-
LISH THAT SUCH STUDENT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH A DISABILITY.
2. AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION MAY REQUEST ADDITIONAL DOCUMEN-
TATION FROM AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD AN INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM
(IEP) IF SUCH INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM (IEP) WAS NOT IN EFFECT
IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO THE DATE WHEN SUCH INDIVIDUAL EXITED HIGH SCHOOL.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06702-01-5
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