S 5481: Provides that where mandatory continuing education programs are offered through electronic or other remote means where the licensee must provide proof of attendance by responding to a visual or auditory prompt in the program, such program shall conform to the most recent guidelines for website content accessibility guidelines.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5481 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to remote programs for mandatory continuing education The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6505-f 2 to read as follows: 3 § 6505-f. Remote programs for mandatory continuing education. 1. 4 Whenever the practice of a profession which is licensed by the state 5 shall require the completion of mandatory continuing education, any 6 program designed and approved to fulfill such requirement which is 7 offered to be delivered electronically or by other remote means where 8 the licensee must provide proof of attendance by responding to a visual 9 or auditory prompt in the program shall conform to the most recent 10 guidelines for website content accessibility guidelines (WCAG). 11 2. A civil penalty of one thousand dollars may be imposed for each 12 violation of this section. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09731-01-5