Bill Text: NY A05855 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5855 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes that tuition rates shall grow by a percentage equal to the general support for public schools appropriation provided to schools.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 16-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in education [A05855 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05855-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5855
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. RA, BRABENEC, CROUCH, HAWLEY, KOLB, MALLIOTAKIS,
          M. L. MILLER, NORRIS, PALMESANO, WALSH -- read once  and  referred  to
          the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to the approval of
          reimbursement methodologies for tuition and maintenance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c.  The  director of the budget, in consultation with the commissioner
     5  of education, the commissioner of social services, and any  other  state
     6  agency  or other source the director may deem appropriate, shall approve
     7  reimbursement methodologies for tuition and for maintenance. Any modifi-
     8  cation in the approved reimbursement methodologies shall be  subject  to
     9  the  approval  of the director of the budget. [Notwithstanding any other
    10  provision of law, rule or regulation  to  the  contrary,  tuition  rates
    11  established for the nineteen hundred ninety-five--ninety-six school year
    12  shall  exclude  the  two percent cost of living adjustment authorized in
    13  rates established  for  the  nineteen  hundred  ninety-four--ninety-five
    14  school  year] Tuition rates approved for the two thousand seventeen--two
    15  thousand eighteen school year and thereafter  for  special  services  or
    16  programs provided to school-age students by approved private residential
    17  or  non-residential schools for the education of students with disabili-
    18  ties that are located  within  the  state  and  by  special  act  school
    19  districts  shall  grow  by a percentage equal to the general support for
    20  public schools appropriation provided to schools.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09674-01-7