Bill Text: NY S01589 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines tuition for the 2013-2014 school year; restricts tuition rates to not more than four percent of a school year's costs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-13 - PRINT NUMBER 1589A [S01589 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S01589-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1589
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 10, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  OPPENHEIMER -- 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 defining "tuition" for
         the 2012-2013 school year
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  4405 of the education law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph j to read as follows:
    3    J. THE TUITION RATE METHODOLOGY ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS  SUBDIVI-
    4  SION  FOR  SPECIAL ACT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND APPROVED PRIVATE SCHOOLS FOR
    5  STUDENTS OF SCHOOL AGE FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE--TWO  THOUSAND  THIR-
    6  TEEN  TUITION  RATE YEAR AND THEREAFTER MAY INCLUDE A SURPLUS FACTOR, AT
    7  THE DISCRETION OF THE COMMISSIONER AND APPROVED BY THE DIRECTOR  OF  THE
    8  BUDGET, WHICH SHALL EQUAL THE LESSER OF: (I) THE SUM OF: (A) THE EXCESS,
    9  IF  ANY,  OF  THE TUITION REVENUE COMPUTED FOR THE BASE YEAR AND USED IN
   10  DETERMINING THE TUITION RATE FOR THE TUITION RATE YEAR OVER  THE  ALLOW-
   11  ABLE  AND  REIMBURSABLE COSTS INCURRED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR PRIVATE
   12  SCHOOL IN THE BASE YEAR, NET OF ANY DISALLOWANCES, PLUS  (B)  ANY  UNEX-
   13  PENDED SURPLUS AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR
   14  PRIOR  TO THE BASE YEAR, AND (II) FOUR PERCENT OF THE TOTAL GENERAL FUND
   15  EXPENDITURES UNDER THE BUDGET OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR APPROVED PRIVATE
   16  SCHOOL FOR THE BASE YEAR. AS USED IN  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  "TUITION  RATE
   17  YEAR"  SHALL  MEAN  THE SCHOOL YEAR FOR WHICH A TUITION RATE IS COMPUTED
   18  AND "BASE YEAR" SHALL MEAN THE  SCHOOL  YEAR  TWO  YEARS  PRIOR  TO  THE
   19  TUITION  RATE  YEAR. THE SPECIAL ACT SCHOOL DISTRICT OR APPROVED PRIVATE
   20  SCHOOL MAY RETAIN ANY SURPLUS COMPUTED PURSUANT TO THIS  SUBDIVISION  AS
   21  AN UNRESERVED FUND BALANCE.
   22    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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