Bill Text: NY S01066 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to allocate specified funds to provide basic school supplies for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01066 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01066-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1066 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing for basic school supplies for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3602-g 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3602-g. Apportionment of moneys to school districts for basic 4 supplies. 1. Definitions. As used in this section the following terms 5 are defined as follows: 6 a. "Basic school supplies" shall mean items generally required by a 7 student to attend school including, but not limited to, pencils, pens, 8 highlighters, crayons, markers, erasers, index cards, paper, notebooks, 9 binders, folders, scissors, rulers and calculators. 10 b. "School district" shall mean the school district which the student 11 attends. 12 2. a. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to grant to 13 each school district ten dollars per student enrolled in public schools 14 in the school district in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade 15 beginning with the two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school 16 year. Each school district shall use such funds to furnish such students 17 with basic school supplies on or before the first day of school each 18 year. 19 b. Any funds which are unused shall be returned to the commissioner. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02860-02-9