Bill Text: NY A07122 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A07122 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07122-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7122
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  salaries  of
          certain  teachers  and  aides employed by boards of cooperative educa-
          tional services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 2016, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    b.  The  cost of services herein referred to shall be the amount allo-
     5  cated to each component school district  by  the  board  of  cooperative
     6  educational  services  to  defray  expenses  of  such  board,  including
     7  approved expenses from the testing of potable water systems of  occupied
     8  school  buildings under the board's jurisdiction as required pursuant to
     9  section eleven hundred ten of the public health law,  except  that  that
    10  part of the salary paid any teacher, supervisor or other employee of the
    11  board  of  cooperative educational services which is in excess of thirty
    12  thousand dollars shall not be such an approved expense, and except  also
    13  that  administrative  and clerical expenses shall not exceed ten percent
    14  of the total expenses for purposes of this computation. Provided, howev-
    15  er, beginning with expenses incurred in  the  two  thousand  twenty--two
    16  thousand  twenty-one school year and thereafter, that part of the salary
    17  paid to any teacher, supervisor or other employee of a board of  cooper-
    18  ative educational services which is in excess of the lesser of the actu-
    19  al  salary or the average statewide salary for such teaching, superviso-
    20  ry, or other position as established by the commissioner shall not be an
    21  approved expense, and further provided that administrative and  clerical
    22  expenses shall not exceed ten percent of the total expenses for purposes
    23  of  this  computation.  Any  gifts,  donations or interest earned by the
    24  board of cooperative educational services or on behalf of the  board  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10370-01-9
        A. 7122                             2
     1  cooperative educational services by the dormitory authority or any other
     2  source  shall  not be deducted in determining the cost of services allo-
     3  cated to each component school district. Any payments made to  a  compo-
     4  nent  school  district  by the board of cooperative educational services
     5  pursuant to subdivision eleven of section six-p of the general municipal
     6  law attributable to an approved cost of  service  computed  pursuant  to
     7  this  subdivision  shall be deducted from the cost of services allocated
     8  to such component  school  district.    The  expense  of  transportation
     9  provided  by  the  board of cooperative educational services pursuant to
    10  paragraph q of subdivision four of this section shall  be  eligible  for
    11  aid  apportioned  pursuant  to  subdivision  seven of section thirty-six
    12  hundred two of this chapter and  no  board  of  cooperative  educational
    13  services  transportation  expense  shall be an approved cost of services
    14  for the  computation  of  aid  under  this  subdivision.  Transportation
    15  expense  pursuant  to  paragraph  q  of subdivision four of this section
    16  shall be included in the computation of the ten  percent  limitation  on
    17  administrative and clerical expenses.
    18    §  2.  Paragraph  b of subdivision 10 of section 3602 of the education
    19  law, as amended by section 16 of part B of chapter 57  of  the  laws  of
    20  2007, is amended to read as follows:
    21    b.  Aid  for career education. There shall be apportioned to such city
    22  school districts and other school districts which were not components of
    23  a board of cooperative educational services in the base year for  pupils
    24  in  grades ten through twelve in attendance in career education programs
    25  as such programs are  defined  by  the  commissioner,  subject  for  the
    26  purposes  of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the budg-
    27  et, an amount for each such pupil to  be  computed  by  multiplying  the
    28  career  education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars] the
    29  district's selected foundation aid as determined pursuant to subdivision
    30  four of this section. Such aid  will  be  payable  for  weighted  pupils
    31  attending  career education programs operated by the school district and
    32  for weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts with  boards
    33  of  cooperative educational services to attend career education programs
    34  operated by a board of cooperative educational services. Weighted pupils
    35  for the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of the  attendance
    36  of  students  in grades ten through twelve in career education sequences
    37  in trade, industrial, technical, agricultural or  health  programs  plus
    38  the  product  of  sixteen  hundredths  multiplied  by  the attendance of
    39  students in grades ten through twelve in career education  sequences  in
    40  business  and  marketing  as defined by the commissioner in regulations.
    41  The career education aid ratio shall be computed by subtracting from one
    42  the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine percent by  the  combined
    43  wealth  ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed as a decimal carried to
    44  three places without rounding, but not less than thirty-six percent.
    45    Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
    46  be required to use such amount to support career education  programs  in
    47  the current year.
    48    A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
    49  by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
    50  during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
    51  sion  reduced  in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current or a
    52  succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive
    53  such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
    54  support of career education programs were continued at a level equal  to
    55  or  greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the
    56  preceding school year.
        A. 7122                             3
     1    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  the
     2  calculation  of  BOCES  aid  and aid for career education payable in the
     3  2021-2022 school year and years thereafter.