What's happening
This bill extends by three years the law requiring publishers to provide accessible instructional materials for college students with disabilities.
Why it matters
Ensures continued access to educational materials for students with disabilities. By extending the law, the bill guarantees that colleges must keep providing instructional materials in accessible formats, helping students with disabilities succeed academically.
Promotes equal opportunity and compliance. The extension reinforces legal obligations for publishers and colleges, supporting ongoing compliance with federal and state disability rights laws and reducing the risk of discrimination.
Provides stability for colleges and students. With the law extended for three more years, colleges can plan and invest in accessible materials and services without worrying about an abrupt change in requirements.
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Who cares
College students with disabilities
The bill would extend for three years the law concerning publishers or manufacturers providing printed instructional materials for these students.
Publishers and manufacturers of instructional materials
The bill would keep the existing law governing their provision of printed instructional materials for college students with disabilities in effect for three additional years.
Colleges serving students with disabilities
The bill would postpone the repeal of the instructional-materials law from 15 to 18 years after its August 15, 2004 effective date.
Headline styles
Extend Disability Textbook Access
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
History
- Signed chap.171
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- 3rd reading cal.1043
- Substituted for S5999
- Referred to higher education
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.312
- Reported
- Referred to higher education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Extend Disability Textbook Access
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7251
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 18, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend chapter 219 of the laws of 2003, amending the education law relating to publishers or manufacturers providing printed instructional materials for college students with disabilities, in relation to extending the provisions of such chapter
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 219 of the laws of 2003, amending the education law relating to publishers or manufacturers providing printed instructional materials for college students with disabilities, as amended by chapter 219 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
§ 2. This act shall take effect August 15, 2004 and shall expire and be deemed repealed [15] 18 years after such effective date.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11061-01-9
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