Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7745
IN SENATE
January 10, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school
districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of
such transition services, including integrated employment, during
school hours
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 4402 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 273 of the laws of 1986, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 c. (1) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to prohib-
5 it a committee on special education from recommending a special service
6 or program specified in paragraph d of subdivision two of section
7 forty-four hundred one of this [chapter] article or to diminish the
8 power of the commissioner to make appointments pursuant to such para-
9 graph.
10 (2) Provided, however, that where the board of education or trustees
11 in furnishing suitable educational opportunities for students with disa-
12 bilities has selected as one of the most reasonable and appropriate
13 special services or programs for such children from those programs spec-
14 ified in paragraph n of subdivision two of section forty-four hundred
15 one of this article upon receipt of the recommendation of the committee
16 on special education, the provision of transition services, in partic-
17 ular vocational training programs approved by the department or by
18 another state agency shall be permitted to occur in the last three years
19 of secondary education of a student with disability during school hours.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13903-01-1
