Requires school districts to refer a newly-registering child with a disability for evaluation within forty-eight hours of the time of the first contact between the school district and the person or entity registering the student with the school district, provided a request for referral has been made.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5180
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring school
districts to refer a child with a disability for evaluation when
application for registration of the child with the district is first
made
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 4401-a of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. With respect to a student who is registering with a school district
4 for the first time, a referral for initial evaluation as provided in
5 this section shall be made within forty-eight hours of the time of the
6 first contact between the school district and the person or entity
7 registering the student with the school district, provided a request for
8 referral has been made. A referral for evaluation shall not be delayed
9 until registration of the student has been completed.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, if
11 this act shall have become a law after June 30, 2026 it shall take
12 effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and
13 effect on and after June 30, 2026; and provided further, that the amend-
14 ments to section 4401-a of the education law made by section one of this
15 act shall survive the expiration and reversion of such section as
16 provided in subdivision d of section 27 of chapter 378 of the laws of
17 2007, as amended.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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