Bill Text: NY A02930 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain school districts to establish excess tuition reserve funds; applies only to school districts with an enrollment of fifteen hundred students or less where the total cost of tuition payments to other school districts is one million dollars or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A02930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02930-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2930

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to authorizing certain
          school districts to establish excess tuition reserve funds

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  3651 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 1-c to read as follows:
     3    1-c.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  this
     4  section,  in  any  school  district  that  contracts with another school
     5  district for the education of some of their students for general  educa-
     6  tion  or  special  education  purposes,  the  board of education of such
     7  school district may establish a  reserve  for  excess  tuition  payments
     8  caused  by:  (a) increases in number of tuition paying students from the
     9  previous fiscal year; or (b) increases in the amount of tuition payments
    10  charged per student from the previous fiscal year, in order to stabilize
    11  the school district property tax levy, without approval of the qualified
    12  voters of the school district. The amount  of  such  reserve  shall  not
    13  exceed  the  average  annual  amount expended for such purposes over the
    14  three previous completed fiscal years.    This  subdivision  shall  only
    15  apply to school districts with an enrollment of fifteen hundred students
    16  or  less  where  the  total  cost  of  tuition  payments to other school
    17  districts is one million dollars or more.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05677-01-3