N.Y. Education Law Section 342-A
Special administrations

1.

When regular test administrations are given on days of religious observance which prevent attendance by test subjects at such regular administrations special administrations shall be offered with the same frequency as regular administrations as soon after or before as is possible, at comparable times, places and cost.

2.

Provided, however, a test agency shall not be required to offer a greater number of special administrations than were offered during the base year commencing August first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight and ending July thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine unless the number of regular administrations is increased in any subsequent testing year, in which case the provisions of subdivision one shall apply.

3.

No test subject shall by reason of religious belief be denied by a test agency, the opportunity to take a test which shall be disclosed pursuant to subdivisions one and two of § 342 (Disclosure of test contents)section three hundred forty-two of this article during any twelve month period.

Source: Section 342-A — Special administrations, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/EDN/342-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Feb. 14, 2026).

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