Bill Text: NY A10193 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that certain schools shall experience no financial harm for reduced enrollment or inability to operate for the full 180 session days due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-23 - approval memo.61 [A10193 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10193-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10193

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. ABINANTI, BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education

        AN ACT in relation to providing that certain schools shall experience no
          financial harm for reduced enrollment or inability to operate for  the
          full  180 session days due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019
          (COVID-19)

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

     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the
     2  contrary, if as a result of the state of emergency that was executed  in
     3  Executive Order No. 202 on March 7, 2020, approved private schools serv-
     4  ing  students  with  disabilities  subject  to articles 81 and 89 of the
     5  education law, special act school  districts,  state  supported  schools
     6  pursuant  to  article  85  of  the education law, and approved preschool
     7  special class and special class in an integrated setting programs pursu-
     8  ant to section 4410 of the education law are unable to operate  for  the
     9  full 180 session days for the 10-month 2019-2020 school year, or experi-
    10  ence a reduction in enrollment during the 2019-2020 school year, the 180
    11  session  day requirement shall be waived and the per diem and/or tuition
    12  rate shall be administratively adjusted by the state  education  depart-
    13  ment,  with  no approval required by the division of the budget, so that
    14  such schools experience no financial  harm  for  reduced  enrollment  or
    15  inability to operate for the full 180 session days.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15794-07-0
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