ยง 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unpublished study, evaluation or statistical report cited in memoranda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.