STATE OF NEW YORK
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5618--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, BUCHWALD, BYRNE, LUPARDO, GALEF -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the
Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reimbursement method-
ologies for tuition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 53 of the laws of 1990, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 a. The commissioner [of education] and the commissioner of social
5 services shall develop reimbursement methodologies for the tuition and
6 maintenance components of approved private schools and special act
7 school districts. The commissioner [of education], in consultation with
8 the appropriate state agencies and departments, shall have responsibil-
9 ity for developing [a] reimbursement [methodology] methodologies for
10 tuition which shall be based upon appropriate educational standards
11 promulgated pursuant to regulations of the commissioner [of education].
12 The commissioner of social services, in consultation with appropriate
13 state agencies and departments, shall have responsibility for developing
14 a reimbursement methodology for maintenance, pursuant to section three
15 hundred ninety-eight-a of the social services law and the regulations
16 promulgated thereunder.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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