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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8639--C
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 10, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to standardized test
          administration
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5-b  of section 342 of the education law, as
     2  added by chapter 295 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
     3    5-b. Subdivisions one, two, three, four, five, five-a and six of  this
     4  section  shall not apply to [the] SAT [II:] Subject Tests.  With respect
     5  to such tests, the test agency shall maintain on file with  the  commis-
     6  sioner  a  complete  sample  test, reflecting tests currently in use, of
     7  each type of SAT [II:] Subject Test to be administered in New  York  and
     8  provide to the test subject the opportunity to secure a copy of a repre-
     9  sentative complete sample test of a Subject Test. Whenever a new Subject
    10  Test is added the test agency shall file and publish updated information
    11  consisting  of descriptions and sample items prior to the administration
    12  of any such test in New York. Whenever a substantial change is  made  in
    13  any  subject, the test agency shall file and publish updated information
    14  consisting of complete sample tests prior to the administration  of  any
    15  such test in New York.
    16    §  2.  Paragraph  b  of subdivision 10 of section 342 of the education
    17  law, as added by chapter 714 of the laws of 1996 and the  opening  para-
    18  graph  as amended by chapter 295 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read
    19  as follows:
    20    b. Subdivisions one, two, three, four and six of  this  section  shall
    21  not  apply  to  the  SAT [I: Reasoning] Test during the nineteen hundred
    22  ninety-six--ninety-seven test year or [any subsequent] to the two  thou-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15500-05-8
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     1  sand  eighteen--two  thousand  nineteen test year so long as the College
     2  Entrance Examination Board discloses in each such testing year:
     3    (i)  four test forms used to administer the SAT [I: Reasoning] Test in
     4  New York, or
     5    (ii) if fewer than four  regular  SAT  [I:  Reasoning]  Test  adminis-
     6  trations  are offered in New York during a test year, the same number of
     7  SAT [I:  Reasoning] Test forms as regular SAT [I: Reasoning] Test admin-
     8  istrations in New York in that test year.
     9    § 3. Subdivision 10 of section 342 of the education law is amended  by
    10  adding a new paragraph b-1 to read as follows:
    11    b-1.  Subdivisions one, two, three, four and six of this section shall
    12  not apply to the SAT Test during the two thousand nineteen--two thousand
    13  twenty test year or any subsequent test year, so  long  as  the  college
    14  entrance examination board discloses in each such testing year:
    15    (i)  if  seven or more regular SAT Test administrations are offered in
    16  New York during a test year, four SAT Test forms used to administer  the
    17  SAT Test in New York;
    18    (ii) if four, five or six regular SAT Test administrations are offered
    19  in  New York during a test year, three SAT Test forms used to administer
    20  the SAT Test in New York; or
    21    (iii) if three or fewer regular SAT Test administrations  are  offered
    22  in  New  York during a test year, the same number of SAT Test forms used
    23  to administer the SAT Test in New York.
    24    § 4. Subdivision 10 of section 342 of the education law is amended  by
    25  adding a new paragraph b-2 to read as follows:
    26    b-2.  Subdivisions one, two, three, four and six of this section shall
    27  not apply to the ACT college entrance examination during the  two  thou-
    28  sand  nineteen--two  thousand  twenty  test  year or any subsequent test
    29  year, so long as the ACT college entrance examination board discloses in
    30  each such testing year:
    31    (i) if seven or more regular ACT college  entrance  examinations  test
    32  administrations  are  offered  in  New York during a test year, four ACT
    33  college entrance examinations test forms  used  to  administer  the  ACT
    34  college entrance examination test in New York;
    35    (ii)  if  four,  five or six regular ACT college entrance examinations
    36  test administrations are offered in New York during a test  year,  three
    37  ACT  college entrance examinations test forms used to administer the ACT
    38  college entrance examination test in New York; or
    39    (iii) if three or fewer regular ACT college entrance examinations test
    40  administrations are offered in New York during a  test  year,  the  same
    41  number  of  ACT  college  entrance examination test forms as regular ACT
    42  college entrance examination test administrations in New  York  in  that
    43  test year.
    44    §  5. Section 347 of the education law, as added by chapter 672 of the
    45  laws of 1979 and as renumbered by chapter 813 of the laws  of  1980,  is
    46  amended to read as follows:
    47    § 347. Violations.  Any test agency which violates any section of this
    48  article  shall  be  liable  for  a  civil penalty of not more than [five
    49  hundred] one thousand dollars for each violation.
    50    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.