Bill Text: NY A01459 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects; defines an eligible school construction project as one that is entirely funded from capital outlays and has a total project cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A01459 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01459-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1459--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. THIELE, BUTTENSCHON, JEAN-PIERRE, LUPARDO, OTIS,
          SILLITTI, WALLACE, JONES, STERN, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Education  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the additional  appor-
          tionment of building aid for certain projects

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 6-f of section
     2  3602 of the education law, as added by section 19 of part H  of  chapter
     3  83 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  has a total project cost of [one hundred] two hundred fifty thou-
     5  sand dollars or less[; provided however, that for any district, no  more
     6  than  one project shall be eligible pursuant to this subparagraph for an
     7  apportionment within the same school year] modified by an annual  county
     8  or  multi-county  labor  market  composite wage rate, established by the
     9  commissioner of labor in consultation with the  commissioner,  for  July
    10  first  of  the base year, indexed to the median of such county or multi-
    11  county rates, but not less than one, up to a  maximum  of  five  hundred
    12  thousand  dollars,  as  determined  by  the  building  aid regional cost
    13  factor; and provided further a school district may combine  up  to  five
    14  years  of  project allowances pursuant to this subparagraph and apply to
    15  the commissioner for project approval for the entire  apportionment  and
    16  such apportionment may be used for one or more projects; and/or
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05649-02-3