2013 New York Consolidated Laws
EDN - Education
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 7-A - (340 - 348) STANDARDIZED TESTING
341 - Background reports.

 
    § 341. Background  reports.    1. Whenever any test agency prepares or
  causes to have prepared research which is used in any study,  evaluation
  or  statistical  report  pertaining  to a test operational after January
  first, nineteen hundred eighty, such study, evaluation or  report  shall
  be  filed  with  the  commissioner.  This  section  shall  apply  to any
  unpublished study, evaluation or statistical report cited  in  memoranda
  of   support   or  opposition  to  legislation  or  proposed  rules  and
  regulations relating to standardized testing   written or  published  by
  the  test  agency  or  its  employees in behalf of the test agency on or
  after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-three.
    2. If any reports  or  other  documents  submitted  pursuant  to  this
  section  contain information identifiable with any  test subject or test
  user institution, such information shall be deleted prior to filing with
  the commissioner.
    3. All reports or other documents submitted pursuant to  this  section
  shall be public records.