Bill Text: NY S03246 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3246 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the projection of increases in school enrollment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03246-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 3246                                                  A. 5194
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2011
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       IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. AMEDORE, CALHOUN, CORWIN, SAYWARD,
         JORDAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.   of A. BURLING --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the projection of
         increases in school enrollment
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section
    2  2023 of the education law, as separately amended by section 1 of part D2
    3  of chapter 57 and chapter 422 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
    4  follows:
    5    (v)  expenditures  in the contingency budget attributable to projected
    6  increases in public school enrollment, which, for the  purpose  of  this
    7  subdivision,  may  include  increases  attributable to the enrollment of
    8  students attending a pre-kindergarten program established in  accordance
    9  with  section  thirty-six  hundred two-e of this chapter, to be computed
   10  based upon an increase in enrollment from the year  prior  to  the  base
   11  year  for  which  the budget is being adopted to the base year for which
   12  the budget is being adopted, provided that where the trustees  or  board
   13  of education have documented evidence that a further increase in enroll-
   14  ment  will occur during the school year for which the contingency budget
   15  is prepared because of new construction, inception of a pre-kindergarten
   16  program, growth or similar factors,  the  expenditures  attributable  to
   17  such  additional enrollment may also be disregarded. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
   18  OTHER PROVISION OF THIS SUBDIVISION, IN DETERMINING PROJECTED  INCREASES
   19  IN  PUBLIC  SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL COMPUTE PROJECTED
   20  ENROLLMENT FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR IN THE SAME MANNER AS  SET  FORTH
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 3246                             2                            A. 5194
    1  IN  PARAGRAPH  G OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF
    2  THIS CHAPTER;
    3    S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    4  the date on which it shall have become a law.