Establishes the first of April as the annual reporting deadline for the basic educational data system (BEDS); imposes some additional requirements for calculating and reporting a school's student population.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2632
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the first
of April as basic educational data system (BEDS) day
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3615
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3615. Basic educational data system (BEDS) day. 1. For purposes of
4 this section, "BEDS day" shall mean the annual reporting deadline for
5 the basic educational data system pursuant to title eight of the New
6 York codes, rules, and regulations.
7 2. Beginning in the two thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six
8 school year and for each school year thereafter, BEDS day shall occur on
9 the first of April of each year.
10 3. For BEDS reporting purposes, student population calculations shall
11 be based on the number of students enrolled at a school on BEDS day for
12 a given school year and who are continuously enrolled at such school for
13 more than half of such school year.
14 4. The commissioner shall adopt, promulgate, amend, or rescind rules
15 and regulations to effectuate the purposes and provisions of this
16 section.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
19 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
20 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
21 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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