Bill Text: NY A00823 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to amending the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program subscription amount for regions other than New York city.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A00823 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00823-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           823

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, ZEBROWSKI, THIELE, STECK, SIMON, SANTA-
          BARBARA, PRETLOW, LUPARDO, GALEF,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  ABINANTI,  MONTESANO,
          McDONOUGH,  DICKENS,  GOTTFRIED,  MAGNARELLI,  SOLAGES,  COOK, TAYLOR,
          VANEL, HYNDMAN,  COLTON,  WEPRIN,  DE LA ROSA,  JONES,  BARRON,  FAHY,
          LAVINE,  WOERNER,  JEAN-PIERRE, J. RIVERA, RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the universal full-day
          pre-kindergarten program; and  to  repeal  subdivision  4  of  section
          3602-ee of such law relating thereto

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3602-ee of the  education  law  is
     2  REPEALED.
     3    §  2. Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 3602-ee of the education law, as
     4  added by section 1 of part CC of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2014,  are
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    1.  The  purpose of the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program is
     7  to incentivize and  fund  state-of-the-art  innovative  pre-kindergarten
     8  programs [and to encourage program creativity through competition].
     9    5.  The  department shall develop a scoring system, which it shall use
    10  to evaluate which applications shall be funded [on a competitive  basis]
    11  based  on  merit  and  factors including but not limited to the criteria
    12  listed above and student and community need. [Upon  review  of  applica-
    13  tions,  if the program is oversubscribed in any region or regions of the
    14  state, the department shall notify the division  of  the  budget,  which
    15  shall  develop  a  plan  for  distribution of available slots within any
    16  oversubscribed region.] The subscription for the New York city region is
    17  three hundred million dollars. The subscription for each region  of  the
    18  state  other  than the New York city region shall be in an amount suffi-
    19  cient to provide slots for all qualifying programs. The department shall

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01850-01-1
        A. 823                              2

     1  allocate full-day pre-kindergarten conversion  slots  and  new  full-day
     2  pre-kindergarten  slots  based  on  available  funding  and  shall  make
     3  payments upon documentation of eligible expenditures in the  base  year,
     4  which  shall  be limited to the actual number of slots operated and paid
     5  on a per-pupil basis pursuant to subdivision fourteen of this section.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
     7  the date on which it shall have become a law.