Bill Text: NY A10552 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows schools to still receive reimbursement for money spent to comply with state requirements if school functions are disrupted by COVID-19.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-28 - referred to education [A10552 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10552-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10552

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 29, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend chapter 507 of the laws of 1974, relating  to  providing
          for the apportionment of state monies to certain nonpublic schools, to
          reimburse  them  for  their  expenses  in complying with certain state
          requirements for the administration of state  testing  and  evaluation
          programs  and for participation in state programs for the reporting of
          basic educational data, in relation to holding  harmless  such  monies
          due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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

     1    Section 1. Section 3 of chapter 507 of the laws of 1974,  relating  to
     2  providing  for  the  apportionment  of state monies to certain nonpublic
     3  schools, to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with  certain
     4  state  requirements  for  the administration of state testing and evalu-
     5  ation programs and for participation in state programs for the reporting
     6  of basic educational data, as amended by chapter  347  of  the  laws  of
     7  2018, is amended to read as follows:
     8    §  3.  Apportionment.  a. The commissioner shall annually apportion to
     9  each qualifying school, for school years beginning  on  and  after  July
    10  first, nineteen hundred seventy-four, an amount equal to the actual cost
    11  incurred  by  each  such  school  during  the  preceding school year for
    12  providing services required by law  to  be  rendered  to  the  state  in
    13  compliance  with  the  requirements  of  the  state's  pupil  evaluation
    14  program, the basic educational data system,  regents  examinations,  the
    15  statewide  evaluation  plan,  the uniform procedure for pupil attendance
    16  reporting, the state's immunization  program  and  other  similar  state
    17  prepared examinations and reporting procedures.
    18    b.  Such  nonpublic  schools shall be eligible to receive aid based on
    19  the number of days or portion of days attendance is taken and  either  a
    20  5.0/5.5  hour  standard instructional day, or another work day as certi-
    21  fied by the nonpublic school officials, in accordance with the methodol-
    22  ogy for computing salary and  benefits  applied  by  the  department  in
    23  paying  aid for the two thousand twelve--two thousand thirteen and prior

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16547-01-0

        A. 10552                            2

     1  school years. Such nonpublic schools shall be  eligible  to  receive  no
     2  less than the highest of their aid in the last three years notwithstand-
     3  ing the disruption of school functions which would otherwise affect such
     4  schools'  eligibility,  including  but  not  limited to the inability to
     5  administer state assessments, due to the response of COVID-19.
     6    c.   The commissioner shall  annually  apportion  to  each  qualifying
     7  school  in  the  cities  of  New York, Buffalo and Rochester, for school
     8  years beginning on or after July first two thousand sixteen,  an  amount
     9  equal to the actual cost incurred by each such school during the preced-
    10  ing  school  year in meeting the recording and reporting requirements of
    11  the state school immunization program, provided that the state's liabil-
    12  ity shall be limited to the amount appropriated for this purpose.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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