Requires that health and welfare services and facilities paid by a school district for a student attending school outside the district be no greater than the district's cost.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4648
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 21, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the payment for health
services for children attending school outside of their district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 912 of the education law, as amended by chapter 477
2 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 912. Health and welfare services to all children. The voters and/or
4 trustees or board of education of every school district shall, upon
5 request of the authorities of a school other than public, provide resi-
6 dent children who attend such school with any or all of the health and
7 welfare services and facilities which are made available by such voters
8 and/or trustees or board of education to or for children attending the
9 public schools of the district. Such services may include, but are not
10 limited to all services performed by a physician, physician assistant,
11 dentist, dental hygienist, registered professional nurse, nurse practi-
12 tioner, school psychologist, school social worker or school speech ther-
13 apist, and may also include dental prophylaxis, vision and hearing
14 screening examinations, the taking of medical histories and the adminis-
15 tration of health screening tests, the maintenance of cumulative health
16 records and the administration of emergency care programs for ill or
17 injured students. Any such services or facilities shall be so provided
18 notwithstanding any provision of any charter or other provision of law
19 inconsistent herewith. Where children residing in one school district
20 attend a school other than public located in another school district,
21 the school authorities of the district of residence shall contract with
22 the school authorities of the district where such nonpublic school is
23 located, for the provision of such health and welfare services and
24 facilities to such children by the school district where such nonpublic
25 school is located, for a consideration, no greater than that paid by the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 district of residence, to be agreed upon between the school authorities
2 of such districts, subject to the approval of the qualified voters of
3 the district of residence when required under the provisions of this
4 chapter. Every such contract shall be in writing and in the form
5 prescribed by the commissioner, and before such contract is executed the
6 same shall be submitted for approval to the superintendent of schools
7 having jurisdiction over such district of residence and such contract
8 shall not become effective until approved by such superintendent.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
10 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
