New York A 7772: Relates to allowing judges more options for when to impose bail or commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff

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A07772 Summary:

BILL NOA07772 

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COSPNSRSmith

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Amd §340, Ed L

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Clarifies the application of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam by explicitly including it in the definition of "standardized test" and "test".

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04/10/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7772

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STERN, SMITH -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to clarifying the appli-
 cation of standardized testing requirements to the general education
 development exam

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 340 of the education law, as
 2 amended by chapter 567 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. "Standardized test" or "test" means:
 5 a. any test that is given in New York at the expense of the test
 6 subject and designed for use and used in the process of selection for
 7 post-secondary or professional school admissions. Such tests shall
 8 include, but are not limited to, the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude
 9 Test, Scholastic Aptitude Test, ACT Assessment, Graduate Record Examina-
 10 tion, Medical College Admission Test, Law School Admission Test, Dental
 11 Admission Testing Program, Graduate Management Admission Test, Miller
 12 Analogies Test and the Test for Standard Written English. This article
 13 shall not apply to any state, federal, or local civil service test, any
 14 test used solely for placement, credit-by-examination or other nonadmis-
 15 sion purpose or any test developed and administered by an individual
 16 school or institution solely for its own purposes or any test, or
 17 portion of a test, designed to evaluate manual skills or other physical
 18 abilities; and
 19 b. the general education development exam.
 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 21 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00414-01-5

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