Bill Text: NY A10816 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits apportionment of state aid where a school was not in session due to extraordinary weather conditions, disasters or emergencies during the two thousand twelve-two thousand thirteen school year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-11-02 - referred to education [A10816 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10816-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10816
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   November 2, 2012
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting  apportion-
         ment  of  state  aid where a school was not in session due to extraor-
         dinary weather conditions, disasters or  emergencies  during  the  two
         thousand twelve-two thousand thirteen school year
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 3604 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 7-b to read as follows:
    3    7-B.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  SEVEN OF THIS
    4  SECTION, FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE--TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR,
    5  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DISREGARD SUCH REDUCTION, UP TO TEN DAYS, IN  THE
    6  APPORTIONMENT  OF  PUBLIC MONEY, IF THE SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT WERE NOT
    7  IN SESSION FOR  ONE  HUNDRED  EIGHTY  DAYS  BECAUSE  OF  EXTRAORDINARILY
    8  ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, FEDERAL DECLARATIONS OF NATURAL DISASTERS, A
    9  STATE  DISASTER EMERGENCY AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY OF THE  EXECUTIVE
   10  LAW, THE CLOSING OF TRANSPORTATION ROUTES PURSUANT TO A  DECLARED  LOCAL
   11  STATE  OF EMERGENCY, IMPAIRMENT OF HEATING FACILITIES,  INSUFFICIENCY OF
   12  WATER SUPPLY, SHORTAGE OF FUEL, LACK OF ELECTRICITY, OR THE  DESTRUCTION
   13  OF  A  SCHOOL  BUILDING EITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART, AND IF, FURTHER, THE
   14  DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT CERTIFIES THAT SUCH DISTRICT CANNOT MAKE UP SUCH
   15  DAYS OF INSTRUCTION BY USING FOR  THE  SECONDARY  GRADES  ALL  SCHEDULED
   16  VACATION DAYS WHICH OCCUR PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED  REGENTS EXAMINA-
   17  TION  DAY  IN JUNE, AND FOR THE ELEMENTARY GRADES ALL SCHEDULED VACATION
   18  DAYS WHICH OCCUR PRIOR TO THE LAST SCHEDULED REGENTS EXAMINATION DAY  IN
   19  JUNE;  AND  IF,  FURTHER,  THE  DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT CERTIFIES TO THE
   20  COMMISSIONER THAT TO DO SO WOULD IMPERIL  STUDENTS,  FACULTY  AND  STAFF
   21  WHILE REPAIRS CONTINUE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "SCHEDULED
   22  VACATION DAYS" SHALL MEAN DAYS  ON WHICH THE SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT ARE
   23  NOT  IN SESSION AND FOR WHICH NO PROHIBITION EXISTS IN SUBDIVISION EIGHT
   24  OF THIS SECTION FOR THEM TO BE IN SESSION.
   25    S 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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