New York A 7240: Provides a time schedule that the fiscal officer must follow when investigating and adjudicating complaints of prevailing wage violations

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A07240 Summary:

BILL NOA07240 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06719

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SPONSORBichotte Hermelyn

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COSPNSRSeptimo, Davila, Taylor, Chandler-Waterman, Colton, Chang, Reyes, Epstein, Hevesi

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§4402, 4403 & 4404, Ed L

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Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.

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BILL NOA07240 

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03/21/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7240

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 21, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SEPTIMO, DAVILA, TAYLOR, CHAN-
 DLER-WATERMAN, COLTON, CHANG, REYES, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to determinations of
 appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school
 district in a city having 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. Item (i) of clause (b) of subparagraph 3 of paragraph b of
 2 subdivision 1 of section 4402 of the education law, as amended by chap-
 3 ter 378 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (i) Make recommendations based upon a written evaluation setting forth
 5 the reasons for the recommendations, to the child's parent or person in
 6 parental relation and board of education or trustees as to appropriate
 7 educational programs and placement in accordance with the provisions of
 8 subdivision six of section forty-four hundred one-a of this article, and
 9 as to the advisability of continuation, modification, or termination of
 10 special class or program placements which evaluation shall be furnished
 11 to the child's parent or person in parental relation together with the
 12 recommendations provided, however that the committee may recommend a
 13 placement in a school which uses psychotropic drugs only if such school
 14 has a written policy pertaining to such use that is consistent with
 15 subdivision four-a of section thirty-two hundred eight of this chapter
 16 and that the parent or person in parental relation is given such written
 17 policy at the time such recommendation is made. If such recommendation
 18 is not acceptable to the parent or person in parental relation, such
 19 parent or person in parental relation may appeal such recommendation as
 20 provided for in section forty-four hundred four of this [chapter] arti-
 21 cle. Provided, further, that in a school district in a city having a
 22 population of one million or more an appeal by the parent or person in
 23 parental relation of such recommendation shall be resolved, either

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11051-01-5

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 1 through the granting or denial of the appeal by an impartial hearing
 2 officer, or by a state review officer, or the signing of a settlement
 3 agreement between the parent or person in parental relation and the
 4 board of education of the school district in the city having a popu-
 5 lation of one million or more or a state agency, within any applicable
 6 time periods prescribed by federal law. Provided, further, that nothing
 7 in this item shall be deemed to prohibit any parent, person in parental
 8 relation or school district from seeking judicial review by any court of
 9 competent jurisdiction.
 10 Upon the signing of a written settlement agreement between a child's
 11 parent or person in parental relation and the board of education of the
 12 school district in a city having a population of one million or more or
 13 a state agency, or the decision, order, or judgment of an impartial
 14 hearing officer, state review officer or a court finding that a unilat-
 15 eral parental placement was appropriate and that tuition payment should
 16 be granted for such unilateral placement, as provided by section
 17 1412(a)(10)(c) of t