STATE OF NEW YORK
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5859
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. LALOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the disclosure of test
contents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs f and g of subdivision 10 of section 342 of the
2 education law, are relettered paragraphs g and h and a new paragraph f
3 is added to read as follows:
4 f. Subdivisions one, two, three, four and six of this section shall
5 not apply to the ACT Assessment during the nineteen hundred ninety-six-
6 -ninety-seven test year or any subsequent test year so long as the
7 College Entrance Examination Board discloses in each such testing year:
8 (i) four test forms used to administer the ACT Assessment in New York,
9 or
10 (ii) if fewer than four regular ACT Assessment administrations are
11 offered in New York during a test year, the same number of ACT Assess-
12 ment forms as regular ACT Assessment administrations in New York in that
13 test year.
14 § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 10 of section 342 of the education
15 law, as added by chapter 714 of the laws of 1996, and as relettered by
16 section one of this act, is amended to read as follows:
17 h. For the purposes of this subdivision, a "regular" administration
18 means a regular Saturday major paper-and-pencil administration of the
19 SAT I, ACT Assessment or GRE General Test or a regular Friday major
20 paper-and-pencil administration of the TOEFL. A "regular" administration
21 does not include any other administration (whether offered on a Friday
22 or Saturday or otherwise), whether a makeup administration, an adminis-
23 tration for Saturday Sabbath observers, or other special-purpose admin-
24 istration, or any individual administration.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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