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BILL NUMBER:S5508A

TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing access to students' individualized education program electronically

PURPOSE: This bill would give the school district the option for a teacher to have access to a student's individual education program electronically.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Paragraph a of subdivision 7 of section of the education law is amended to give the school district the option for a teacher to have access to a student's individual education program electronically.

Section 2 makes this act effective immediately.

JUSTIFICATION: This proposal will save time and money, promote environmental conservation, and provide better protection for the confidentiality of student records than the existing system, which causes multiple copies of records to be in circulation. At the same time, it ensures that teachers continue to have easy access to their students' IEP and continue to he informed of their responsibilities under the IEP.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.

Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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5508--A

2011-2012 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

May 26, 2011
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Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- 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

AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing access to
  students' individualized education program electronically

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph a of subdivision 7 of section 4402 of the educa-
tion law, as added by chapter 408 of the laws of  2002,  is  amended  to
read as follows:
  a.  The board of education or trustees of each school district and the
board of trustees of each charter school shall adopt a policy to  ensure
that  each regular education teacher, special education teacher, related
service provider, and other service provider who is responsible for  the
implementation  of a student's individualized education program shall be
given a copy of such student's individualized education program prior to
the implementation of such program OR  SHALL  BE  ABLE  TO  ACCESS  SUCH
STUDENT'S INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM ELECTRONICALLY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11846-02-1