New York State Register

Subject: Academic intervention services. Purpose: To provide flexibility in the identification process for AIS during the 2023-2024 school year and any other year where the results of the grades 3-8 assessments are not provided to schools prior to the beginning of the school year.

Subject: Requirements for the endorsement of a certificate as a school counselor. Purpose: To align the pathways for certification for school counselor candidates with the pathways for certification for teacher and educational leadership candidates who hold a certificate from, and/or completed an educator preparation program in, another state or territory of the United States (U.S.) or the District of Columbia.

Subject: Universal prekindergarten program (UPK) staffing qualifications. Purpose: To implement part A of chapter 56 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Requiring concussion management protocols in nonpublic schools. Purpose: To implement chapter 617 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Temporary practice by certain U.S. servicemembers and service- members’ spouses licensed or certified in another state. Purpose: To implement section 19 of Public Law sections 117-333.

Subject: Contracts for excellence and class size reduction in the City School District of the City of New York. Purpose: To implement chapter 556 of the Laws of 2022, as amended by chapter 86 of the Laws of 2023.

Subject: Certification as a school counselor through individual evaluation. Purpose: To provide two additional options to satisfy the practicum and internship requirement for certification as a school counselor through the individual evaluation pathway.

Subject: Appeals to the Commissioner of Education under Education Law section 310. Purpose: To ensure that the appeals process serves as an expeditious and simple method to address questions re: school administration.

Subject: Supplementary certificate and Supplementary Bilingual Educa- tion extension requirements. Purpose: To provide flexibilities for the Supplementary certificate and Supplementary Bilingual Education extension requirements in response to the influx of recently arrived and asylum-seeking students.

Subject: Rebuilding the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) account- ability system using 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school year results. Purpose: To align with the approved state plan addendum from the 2021- 2022 school year, the approved amendments to the New York State Consolidated State Plan for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years, and with provisions related to rebuilding the ESSA accountability system.

Subject: Timeline for initial enrollment or reentry identification and par- ent notification, orientation, and placement of ELLs. Purpose: To provide that the Commissioner may allow school districts to seek an extension of the 10-day timeline for identification and placement of ELLS where exigent circumstances exist.

Subject: Requirements for restricted licenses for clinical laboratory technologists in molecular testing. Purpose: To implement chapter 186 of the Laws of 2023.

Subject: Fees for certificates of existence and copies of charter actions and consent to incorporation. Purpose: To require a fee for certificates of existence and copies of charter actions and to update regulatory provisions regarding consent to incorporation.

Subject: Computer science tenure area. Purpose: To extend the dates listed in the computer science tenure regula- tions by one year from September 1, 2023 to September 1, 2024, aligning the date with the Computer Science SOCE application deadline and the date by which teachers of computer science courses need to hold the Com- puter Science certificate or SOCE.

Subject: Regents accreditation. Purpose: To repeal regulatory provisions related to Board of Regents Ac- creditation since the Board is no longer recognized as an institutional ac- crediting agency.

Subject: Universal Prekindergarten Program (UPK) Staffing Qualifications. Purpose: To implement part A of chapter 56 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Requiring concussion management protocols in nonpublic schools. Purpose: To implement chapter 617 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Temporary practice by certain U.S. servicemembers and service- members’ spouses licensed or certified in another state. Purpose: To implement section 19 of Public Law 117-333.

Subject: New York State Learning Standards. Purpose: Updating to reflect current New York State Learning Standards.

Subject: Licensing examination and testing accommodations in the profes- sion of architecture. Purpose: To conform NYS architecture licensure requirements with national standards set by the National Council of Architectural Registra.

Subject: Extending a flexibility for incidental teaching. Purpose: To extend flexibility for incidental teaching through the 2023- 2024 school year.

Subject: Employment of substitute teachers. Purpose: To make permanent substitute teaching flexibility for school districts and BOCES.

Subject: Education requirements for licensure as a registered professional nurse and licensed practical nurse. Purpose: To permit the Department to reject out-of-state nursing programs approved by the licensing authority of another state if a it is determined not to be satisfactory to the Department.

Subject: Education requirements for licensure as a registered professional nurse and licensed practical nurse. Purpose: To extend the deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school counselor certificate for candidates who completed a registered program leading to Provisional School Counselor certification, as well as candidates who may still be matriculating in this type of program but will complete it by February 2, 2024.

Subject: Deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school coun- selor certificate. Purpose: To extend the deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school counselor certificate for candidates who completed a registered program leading to Provisional School Counselor certification, as well as candidates who may still be matriculating in this type of program but will complete it by February 2, 2024.

Subject: Deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school coun- selor certificate. Purpose: To extend the deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school counselor certificate for candidates who completed a registered program leading to Provisional School Counselor certification, as well as candidates who may still be matriculating in this type of program but will complete it by February 2, 2024.

Subject: Removes requirement that a postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program experience be clinically based. Purpose: To implement chapter 613 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Removes requirement that a postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program experience be clinically based. Purpose: To implement chapter 613 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: School food service programs and bidding exemptions for purchasing New York State food and milk. Purpose: To implement part OO of chapter 58 of the Laws of 2023.

Subject: Licensing examination and testing accommodations in the profes- sion of architecture. Purpose: To conform NYS architecture licensure requirements with national standards set by the National Council of Architectural Registra.

Subject: Extending a flexibility for incidental teaching. Purpose: To extend flexibility for incidental teaching through the 2023- 2024 school year.

Subject: Occupational therapists’ authority to provide treatment for a limited time without a referral. Purpose: To implement section 1 of chapter 601 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Academic Intervention Services. Purpose: To provide flexibility in the identification process for AIS during the 2023-2024 school year and any other year where the results of the grades 3-8 assessments are not provided to schools prior to the beginning of the school year.

Subject: Initial reissuance, provisional renewal, and time extension requirements. Purpose: To revise the initial reissuance, provisional renewal, and time extension requirements to ensue that educators have an opportunity to extent the validity period of their certificates during extenuating circum- stances that may prevent them from completing the requirements for the Professional or Permanent certificate.

Subject: Education requirements for licensure as a registered professional nurse and licensed practical nurse. Purpose: To permit the Department to reject out-of-state nursing programs approved by the licensing authority of another state if a it is determined not to be satisfactory to the Department.

Subject: Deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school coun- selor certificate. Purpose: To extend the deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school counselor certificate for candidates who completed a registered program leading to Provisional School Counselor certification, as well as candidates who may still be matriculating in this type of program but will complete it by February 2, 2024.

Subject: Requirements for admission to the examination for licensure as an engineer. Purpose: To reflect the intent of Chapter 465 of the Laws of 2021 by continuing to allow “all experience” pathway applicants to sit for the fundamentals of engineering examination.

Subject: Requirements for admission to the examination for licensure as an engineer. Purpose: To reflect the intent of chapter 465 of the Laws of 2021 by continuing to allow “all experience” pathway applicants to sit for the fundamentals of engineering examination.

Subject: Corporal punishment, restraint, and seclusion. Purpose: The proposed rule is necessary to clarify, streamline, and update the Regents Rules and the Commissioner’s regulations relating to corporal punishment to address the unsafe use of restraint and seclusion in schools and to ensure informed and sufficient protections; culturally responsive, strength-based and multi-tiered supports; and services and instruction that meet students’ social, emotional, behavioral and academic needs.

Subject: School counselor education program general registration requirements. Purpose: To require school counselor programs which lead to Initial and

Subject: Removes requirement that a postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program experience be clinically based. Purpose: To implement chapter 613 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Registration and operation of central fill pharmacies. Purpose: To establish parameters for the central fill pharmacy model.

Subject: Requirements for the endorsement of a certificate as a school counselor. Purpose: To align the pathways for certification for school counselor candidates with the pathways for certification for teacher and educational leadership candidates who hold a certificate from, and/or completed an educator preparation program in, another state or territory of the United States (U.S.) or the District of Columbia.

Subject: Universal Prekindergarten Program (UPK) Staffing Qualifications. Purpose: To implement Part A of Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Requiring concussion management protocols in nonpublic schools. Purpose: To implement chapter 617 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Temporary practice by certain U.S. servicemembers and service- members’ spouses licensed or certified in another state. Purpose: To implement section 19 of Public Law, sections 117-333.

Subject: Special education due process hearings. Purpose: To amend due process hearing procedures relating to extensions, mediation and resolution, rules of conduct, and use of in-person, telecon- ference, and videoconference hearings.