Bill Text: NY A04139 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the state to provide state funds to community colleges for additional operating costs associated with an increase in the state minimum wage; requires the board of trustees of community colleges to report to the state comptroller on an annual basis the amount of such additional operating costs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in higher education [A04139 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04139-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4139
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. RA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. M. L. MILLER
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the state to
          provide  state  funds  to  community colleges for additional operating
          costs associated with an increase in the state minimum wage
          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 6304-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6304-b.  State  aid  for  community  college day care centers. Each
     4  community college within the state that has a day care center  shall  be
     5  provided annually with state funds from the general fund for the purpose
     6  of  offsetting  additional  costs  to  such community colleges due to an
     7  increase in the state minimum wage. Such additional  funds  shall  match
     8  any  additional  day  care  center  operating  costs  associated with an
     9  increase in the state minimum wage. The board of trustees of the  commu-
    10  nity  college  shall  report to the state comptroller on an annual basis
    11  the amount of such additional operating costs.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02362-01-9
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