Bill Text: NY A07108 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the apportionment of moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A07108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07108-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7108
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 8, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to the apportionment of
          moneys for capital  outlays  and  debt  service  for  school  building
          purposes
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 6  of  section
     2  3602  of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (d) to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (d) For aid payable in the school  years  two  thousand  nineteen--two
     5  thousand  twenty  and  thereafter for school building projects to remedy
     6  capacity shortages of high-need school districts, as defined pursuant to
     7  regulations of the commissioner in clause (c) of this  subparagraph  and
     8  are  located  in  a  county  with a population of more than nine hundred
     9  forty thousand and less than one million inhabitants  according  to  the
    10  two  thousand  ten  federal  census,  as  approved by the voters of such
    11  school district or by such board of education of a city school  district
    12  in  a  city with more than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants,
    13  on or after July first, two thousand seventeen, may  compute  aid  under
    14  the provisions of this subdivision using the high-need secondary supple-
    15  mental  building  aid ratio, which shall be the lesser of: (A) the prod-
    16  uct, computed to three decimals without rounding, of the greater of  the
    17  building  aid ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and (iii)
    18  of clause (b) of this subparagraph multiplied by ten percent; or (B) the
    19  positive remainder of ninety-eight one-hundredths less  the  greater  of
    20  the  building  aid  ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and
    21  (iii) of clause (b)  of  this  subparagraph.  School  building  projects
    22  eligible  for  aid  pursuant  to  this  clause shall include projects to
    23  address capacity shortages of at least ten  percent  of  the  calculated
    24  capacity  of  the  district  or  at  least ten percent of the calculated
    25  capacity of elementary or secondary schools of the district,  as  deter-
    26  mined by the commissioner.
    27    § 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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