Bill Text: NY A06743 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education and commissioner of labor to study the appropriateness of county placement in the regional cost index used for the school aid formula.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A06743 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06743-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6743

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to direct the commissioner of education and the  commissioner  of
          labor to study the appropriateness of county placement in the regional
          cost index used for the school aid formula

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

     1    Section 1. The New York state education department ("the  department")
     2  shall,  in  consultation  with  the  New York state department of labor,
     3  study and review the geographic cost variations of the counties  located
     4  in the Hudson Valley labor force region to determine the appropriateness
     5  of  the regional cost index values used within the public school founda-
     6  tion aid formula, as well as  county  placement  in  the  Hudson  Valley
     7  region.  The department shall consider the appropriateness of moving any
     8  of  the  counties  of  Orange, Rockland, Westchester, Dutchess or Putnam
     9  currently within the Hudson Valley region into the Long Island/New  York
    10  city  region.  The  department  shall  consult  with  the New York state
    11  department of labor to review labor costs for the Hudson  Valley  region
    12  and  the  Long  Island/New  York  city region. The department shall also
    13  review the regional costs associated with  construction  and  study  the
    14  impact  on  applying  an up to date cost index on public school building
    15  aid reimbursement.
    16    § 2. The department shall, on or before  March  1,  2022,  report  the
    17  findings,  conclusions  and  recommendations  of  the  study required by
    18  section one of this act to the governor, the temporary president of  the
    19  senate and the speaker of the assembly.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10070-02-1