Bill Text: NY A06122 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates an after-school challenge program to provide schools with up to $50,000 in matching funds for resources raised in private donations to support after-school programs which are curriculum based or community service programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - held for consideration in education [A06122 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06122-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6122

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to an after-school chal-
          lenge program

          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 319 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  319. After-school challenge program. 1. There is hereby established
     4  under the jurisdiction of the  commissioner  an  after-school  challenge
     5  program  to  provide schools with matching funds for resources raised in
     6  private donations to support after-school programs. Each district  shall
     7  be  eligible  to receive a maximum of fifty thousand dollars annually in
     8  matching funds from the state beginning with the  two  thousand  twenty-
     9  three--two thousand twenty-four school year. Programs under this section
    10  shall  provide  affordable,  low-cost  after-school care for students in
    11  grades one through eight that  run  after  school  until  at  least  six
    12  o'clock  p.m.  Priority  in awarding grants shall be given to curriculum
    13  based education programs or community service programs. The commissioner
    14  shall establish additional criteria for the awarding of challenge grants
    15  provided for in this section.
    16    2. The matching contributions raised by a school district must be from
    17  sources other than  state  appropriations  or  federal  funds.  Matching
    18  contributions  shall  come  from contributions, pledged for the purposes
    19  specified in this section or unpledged, and accrued investment  earnings
    20  thereon,  made after January first, two thousand twenty-four.  Donations
    21  may be financial or in-kind contributions received from individuals  and
    22  businesses  throughout the community. Once the necessary level of match-
    23  ing contributions has been raised, the district shall provide  verifica-
    24  tion  to  the  commissioner that the required level of contributions has

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10538-01-3
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     1  been received and is being held to be used solely  for  the  purpose  of
     2  supporting after-school programs.
     3    3.  The  commissioner shall report on the success of the program on or
     4  before July first, two thousand twenty-six.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.  Effective  immediately,
     6  the  addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
     7  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
     8  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.