Bill Text: NY A01469 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for high need and average need school districts to receive additional financial aid for each student if such school district spends ten percent less per student than the regional average spending per student.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A01469 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01469-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1469

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  additional  financial
          aid provided to certain school districts

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

     1    Section 1. Section 3602 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 16-a to read as follows:
     3    16-a.  Pupil low spending aid. a. Each school district shall be eligi-
     4  ble to receive an additional aid apportionment pursuant to this subdivi-
     5  sion if such district meets certain  thresholds  based  on  the  average
     6  spending per pupil. Such aid shall be distributed on an annual basis and
     7  shall be apportioned as follows:
     8    (1) For a district determined to be a high need school district by the
     9  commissioner  using the most current total funding allocation statements
    10  required pursuant to section three thousand six hundred fourteen of this
    11  part, the regional spending per pupil as well as the  district  spending
    12  per  pupil  shall  be  calculated. If the regional spending per pupil is
    13  more than ten percent higher than the district spending per pupil,  then
    14  such  district  shall be awarded aid in an amount of one hundred dollars
    15  multiplied by the amount of percentage points  above  ten  percent,  per
    16  pupil.
    17    (2) For a district determined to be an average need school district by
    18  the  commissioner using the most current total funding allocation state-
    19  ments required pursuant to section three thousand six  hundred  fourteen
    20  of  this  part,  the regional spending per pupil as well as the district
    21  spending per pupil shall be calculated. If  the  regional  spending  per
    22  pupil  is  more  than  ten percent higher than the district spending per
    23  pupil, then such district shall be awarded aid in  an  amount  of  fifty
    24  dollars multiplied by the amount of percentage points above ten percent,
    25  per pupil.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    b.  For  purposes  of  this  subdivision, "regional spending" shall be
     2  broken down into the following:
     3    (1) Long Island (which consists of Suffolk and Nassau counties);
     4    (2)  the  city of New York (which consists of Bronx, New York, Queens,
     5  Brooklyn, and Richmond counties);
     6    (3) the Mid-Hudson region (which consists of Sullivan, Ulster,  Dutch-
     7  ess, Orange, Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland counties);
     8    (4)  the Southern tier (which consists of Steuben, Schuyler, Tompkins,
     9  Chemung, Tioga, Chenango, Broome, and Delaware counties);
    10    (5) the Capital region (which consists of Warren, Washington,  Sarato-
    11  ga, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Albany, Columbia, and Greene counties);
    12    (6)  the  Mohawk  valley  (which consists of Oneida, Herkimer, Fulton,
    13  Montgomery, Otsego, and Schoharie counties);
    14    (7) the North  country  (which  consists  of  Clinton,  Franklin,  St.
    15  Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Hamilton, and Essex counties);
    16    (8)  the  Central  region (which consists of Oswego, Cayuga, Onondaga,
    17  Madison, and Cortland counties);
    18    (9) the Finger Lakes region (which consists of Orleans, Monroe, Wayne,
    19  Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Ontario, Seneca, and Yates counties); and
    20    (10) the Western region (which consists of Niagara, Erie,  Chautauqua,
    21  Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties).
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.