Bill Text: NY A04158 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the financing of charter schools and apportionments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A04158 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04158-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4158

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PEOPLES-STOKES,  LUNSFORD  --  read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the financing of char-
          ter schools

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  1 of section 2856 of the
     2  education law, as amended by section 36-c of part A of chapter 56 of the
     3  laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) School districts shall be eligible  for  an  annual  apportionment
     5  equal  to  the  amount of the supplemental basic tuition for the charter
     6  school in the base year for the expenses incurred in  the  two  thousand
     7  fourteen--two  thousand  fifteen,  two  thousand  fifteen--two  thousand
     8  sixteen, two thousand sixteen--two thousand seventeen school  years  and
     9  thereafter,  provided  however,  that  for  any school district having a
    10  population of less than one million, such payment shall be made  in  the
    11  current year for expenses incurred in the two thousand twenty-three--two
    12  thousand twenty-four school year and thereafter.  Provided further, that
    13  for  expenses  incurred in the two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-
    14  one school year, for a city school district in a  city  having  a  popu-
    15  lation of one million or more, the annual apportionment shall be reduced
    16  by  thirty-five  million dollars ($35,000,000) upon certification by the
    17  director of the budget of the availability of a grant in the same amount
    18  from the elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds provided
    19  through the American rescue plan act of 2021.
    20    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 2856 of  the  education
    21  law,  as  amended by section 36-d of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of
    22  2021, is amended to read as follows:
    23    (c) School districts shall be eligible  for  an  annual  apportionment
    24  equal  to  the  amount of the supplemental basic tuition for the charter
    25  school in the base year for the expenses incurred in  the  two  thousand

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  fourteen--two  thousand  fifteen,  two  thousand  fifteen--two  thousand
     2  sixteen, two thousand sixteen--two thousand seventeen school  years  and
     3  thereafter,  provided  however,  that  for  any school district having a
     4  population  of  less than one million, such payment shall be made in the
     5  current year for expenses incurred in the two thousand twenty-three--two
     6  thousand twenty-four school year and thereafter.  Provided further, that
     7  for expenses incurred in the two thousand twenty--two  thousand  twenty-
     8  one  school  year,  for  a city school district in a city having a popu-
     9  lation of one million or more, the annual apportionment shall be reduced
    10  by thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) upon certification  by  the
    11  director of the budget of the availability of a grant in the same amount
    12  from the elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds provided
    13  through the American rescue plan act of 2021.
    14    §  3.  Section  3602  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    15  subdivision 42 to read as follows:
    16    42. Aid for charter school tuition payments. (a) Any  school  district
    17  that  is  required to pay tuition to charter schools pursuant to section
    18  twenty-eight hundred fifty-six of this chapter in the two thousand twen-
    19  ty-three--two thousand twenty-four school year and thereafter  shall  be
    20  eligible for an apportionment under this subdivision.
    21    (b)  Each  school year, any such eligible school district shall submit
    22  the total amount of charter school tuition paid by the district  in  the
    23  base year on a form prescribed by the commissioner.
    24    (c)  The apportionment herein for each school district shall equal the
    25  positive result of total  charter  school  basic  tuition  paid  in  the
    26  current  year  minus  the total charter school basic tuition paid in the
    27  two thousand twenty-three--two thousand twenty-four school year.
    28    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
    29  ments  to  subdivision  1  of  section 2856 of the education law made by
    30  section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion
    31  of such subdivision pursuant to subdivision d of section 27  of  chapter
    32  378  of the laws of 2007, as amended, when upon such date the provisions
    33  of section two of this act shall take effect.