Relates to employment preparation education programs; authorizes persons under 21 who are attending regular day school classes and are designated as English language learners to attend employment preparation education programs at no additional cost to the school district or BOCES, provided there is space available.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1704
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to employment preparation
education programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 3602 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
3 i. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
4 student under twenty-one years of age who attends regular day school
5 classes and is designated as an English language learner by his or her
6 school district or BOCES program, shall be eligible to participate in an
7 approved employment preparation education program, provided that space
8 is available, at no additional cost to such school district or BOCES;
9 and provided, further, that such students shall not be included under
10 paragraphs b and h of this subdivision.
11 § 2. 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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