Bill Text: NY A04987 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the education law, in relation to adding a regional cost of living factor into any category of aid to school districts in which a statewide formula is used

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to education [A04987 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A04987-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4987
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 10, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. BRODSKY, GALEF, PAULIN, BRADLEY, ENGLEBRIGHT --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to adding a regional cost
         of living factor into any category of aid to school districts in which
         a statewide formula is used
         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 3602-g
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 3602-G. REGIONAL COST FACTOR. 1. IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER APPORTION-
    4  MENT,  FOR  AID  PAYABLE  IN  THE  TWO THOUSAND NINE -- TWO THOUSAND TEN
    5  SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER, A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE ELIGIBLE  FOR  AN
    6  APPORTIONMENT  UNDER  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION TO ACCOUNT FOR THE
    7  HIGHER COST OF PROVIDING A PUBLIC EDUCATION  IN  CERTAIN  AREAS  OF  THE
    8  STATE.  A  SCHOOL  DISTRICT'S  APPORTIONMENT UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE
    9  COMPUTED BY MULTIPLYING THE APPROPRIATE  REGIONAL  COST  FACTOR  BY  THE
   10  TOTAL AMOUNT OF FORMULA AIDS PAYABLE TO SUCH DISTRICT UNDER SUBDIVISIONS
   11  NINE,  TWELVE, AND THIRTEEN, PARAGRAPHS D AND F OF SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN,
   12  AND SUBDIVISION SIXTEEN, OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS ARTI-
   13  CLE, SUBDIVISIONS FOUR, SIX, AND SEVEN OF SECTION SEVEN HUNDRED  ONE  OF
   14  THIS  CHAPTER,  SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION SEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THIS
   15  CHAPTER, SECTION SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THIS  CHAPTER,  AND  SECTION
   16  THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO-E OF THIS ARTICLE IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
   17    2.  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR,
   18  SHALL ANNUALLY COMPUTE THE REGIONAL COST FACTORS FOR THE VARIOUS REGIONS
   19  OF THE STATE.  IN  MAKING  SUCH  COMPUTATIONS,  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL
   20  CONSIDER,  AT  A  MINIMUM, THE COST TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF PROVIDING FOR
   21  EMPLOYEES' SALARIES, STUDENTS' TRANSPORTATION, AND  THE  ACQUISITION  OF
   22  VARIOUS GOODS AND SERVICES; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN NO CASE SHALL THE
   23  REGIONAL COST FACTOR EXCEED FIVE HUNDREDTHS.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 4987                             2
    1    3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE DEEMED
    2  TO  BE  SITUATED  IN  THE  REGION  IN WHICH THE MAJORITY OF ITS STUDENTS
    3  RESIDE.
    4    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.