STATE OF NEW YORK
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5697
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 13, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to preventing time limits
being placed on standardized tests given in cities with a population
of one million or more
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
2 2590-w to read as follows:
3 § 2590-w. Time limits on certain tests. Notwithstanding any other
4 provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, no state assess-
5 ments, state-created tests, state administered tests, tests created by
6 the city district or any other standardized tests or examinations admin-
7 istered by the city district shall be subject to any time limitation
8 when such assessment, test or examination is administered to a student
9 who attends the city district.
10 § 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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