S2452 • 2025

Relates to screening for gifted and talented students

Education Parental Rights

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Sponsor: Toby Ann Stavisky
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to screening for gifted and talented students

Relates to screening for gifted and talented students Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.

What This Bill Does

Relates to screening for gifted and talented students Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-21 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-20 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-19 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1174
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-06-10 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-10 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-10 Assembly
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-05-22 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-21 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-20 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1158
2025-01-17 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Relates to screening for gifted and talented students
Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2452

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  school  districts
          screening for gifted and talented students

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

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 63 to read as follows:
     3    63. A. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS  TO  SCREEN
     4  FOR  GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS. SUCH STUDENTS SHALL BE SCREENED PRIOR
     5  TO ENTERING THIRD GRADE.
     6    B. SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHALL PROVIDE NOTICE OF  SUCH  SCREENING  TO  EACH
     7  STUDENT  AND  TO THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF EACH STUDENT ENROLLED IN SUCH
     8  SCHOOL DISTRICT.  THE NOTICE SHALL:
     9    (I) BE PRINTED IN A CLEAR AND CONSPICUOUS MANNER  AND  SHALL  DESCRIBE
    10  SUCH SCREENING METHODS; AND
    11    (II)  GIVE  THE  PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF SUCH STUDENT THE OPPORTUNITY TO
    12  OPT OUT OF SUCH SCREENING BY CHECKING THE BOX "DO NOT SCREEN MY CHILD".
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01387-01-5