Senate Bill S4151

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to student age eligibility for certain programs and benefits

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S4151 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8315
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Ed L, generally; amd §§7.37, 7.37-a, 7.38, 13.37, 13.37-a, 13.38, 29.15 & 33.11, Ment Hyg L; amd §§118, 169, 350-j, 386, 398, 398-c, 409-a & 430, Soc Serv L

2025-S4151 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases age eligibility for certain programs and benefits to age twenty-two for students with a disability.

2025-S4151 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4151 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4151
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, the mental hygiene law and the social
   services law, in relation  to  student  age  eligibility  for  certain
   programs and benefits

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 112-a of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  26  of  the  laws  of  2022, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. A person under twenty-one years of age, OR UNDER  TWENTY-TWO  YEARS
 OF  AGE FOR A STUDENT WITH A DISABILITY AS DEFINED IN SECTION FORTY-FOUR
 HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER, who has not received a high school  diploma
 and who is placed with, committed to, under the supervision of, detained
 or  otherwise  confined  in  any  facility operated or administered by a
 state department or agency or political subdivision of the  state  which
 provides  educational programs pursuant to section one hundred twelve of
 this article, or who is confined in a correctional facility, as  defined
 in  subdivision  four  of  section  two  of  the correction law, and who
 participates in an educational program provided by such facility,  shall
 be  issued  a  high  school  diploma  by the school district of location
 except when credit bearing educational programming is provided by anoth-
 er school district.  When  credit  bearing  educational  programming  is
 provided  by another school district, that district shall be responsible
 for issuing the high school diploma. The school district responsible for
 issuing the diploma must determine if  such  person  has  completed  the
 minimum  New  York  state diploma requirements as set forth in the regu-
 lations of the commissioner while placed with, committed to,  under  the
 supervision of, detained or confined in such facility.
   §  2.  Subdivisions  13  and  14 of section 1102 of the education law,
 subdivision 13 as amended by chapter 301 of the laws of 1996, and subdi-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08345-01-5
              

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