Bill Text: NY A00242 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes cities with a population of one hundred fifty thousand or more to impose an additional twenty-five cent fee upon the ticket price of four dollars or more for any sporting event held within such city; moneys collected shall be used for sport and recreation programs in such cities; creates a NYC sports and recreation advisory committee to determine how the money shall be spent in NYC; outside NYC the respective school boards shall administer funds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A00242 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00242-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 242 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, COOK, ORTIZ, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to creating the New York schools sports and recreation program and establishing the New York city schools sports and recreation advisory committee; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the New York schools sports and recreation fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby 2 finds that participation in organized extracurricular sports and recre- 3 ational programs provides students with valuable physical and emotional 4 benefits. Such programs are a significant and important aspect of a 5 child's education. The legislature further finds that such programs are 6 underfunded and in need of financial support. Therefore, it is the 7 intent of the legislature to provide a solution to the problem of fund- 8 ing such sports and recreational programs by establishing the New York 9 city schools sports and recreation advisory committee and the New York 10 schools sports and recreation fund. 11 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new article 10-E to read 12 as follows: 13 ARTICLE 10-E 14 THE NEW YORK SCHOOLS SPORTS AND RECREATION PROGRAM 15 Section 500-a. The New York schools sports and recreation fee program. 16 500-b. The New York city schools sports and recreation advisory 17 committee. 18 § 500-a. The New York schools sports and recreation fee program. 1. 19 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any city 20 with a population of one hundred fifty thousand or more is hereby 21 authorized and empowered to adopt and amend its local laws imposing, in EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06429-01-7A. 242 2 1 accordance with the provisions of this article, a twenty-five cent fee 2 upon the ticket price of four dollars or more for any sporting event 3 held within such city. 4 2. All moneys collected pursuant to subdivision one of this section 5 and all increments to the principal derived from investment gain, inter- 6 est accumulation, and other sources of income shall only be deposited 7 into the New York schools sports and recreation fund as established in 8 section ninety-seven-pppp of the state finance law. 9 3. (a) The amount of earnings and accumulated income upon the princi- 10 pal of the fund for the prior fiscal year, as reported by the comp- 11 troller on August fifteenth annually, shall be available for appropri- 12 ation to the New York city schools sports and recreation advisory 13 committee or to the school board of a city imposing a sports and recre- 14 ation fee pursuant to subdivision one of this section. Any funds so 15 appropriated shall be expended for sports and recreation programs 16 authorized by the school board in such city or the New York city schools 17 sports and recreation advisory committee in the city of New York, pursu- 18 ant to the provisions of section five hundred-b of this article. 19 (b) Seventy-five percent of such moneys shall be disbursed for the 20 sports and recreational programs of public schools located within such 21 city's school district and twenty-five percent shall be disbursed for 22 the sports and recreational programs of non-public schools located with- 23 in such city. All expenditures from the fund for the purposes of this 24 section shall be made on the audit and warrant of the comptroller upon 25 vouchers approved by the president of such city's board of education, or 26 by the chancellor of the city school district in the case of the city 27 school district of the city of New York. 28 § 500-b. The New York city schools sports and recreation advisory 29 committee. 1. There is hereby created the New York city schools sports 30 and recreation advisory committee, to be appointed by the chancellor of 31 the city school district of the city of New York. Such committee shall 32 consist of eleven members who have submitted applications for appoint- 33 ment or have been recommended for appointment by public officials or 34 school administrators: five of whom shall be parents of a student in 35 attendance and registered in a sports or recreation program at a public 36 school located within the city school district of the city of New York 37 representative of each borough and chosen by such borough president, one 38 of whom shall be a parent of a student in attendance and registered in 39 a sports or recreation program at a non-public school located within the 40 city school district of the city of New York, one of whom shall be an 41 athletic director or coach from a public school located within the city 42 school district of the city of New York, one of whom shall be an athlet- 43 ic director or coach from a non-public school located within the city 44 school district of the city of New York, one of whom shall be a student 45 in attendance and registered in a sports or recreation program at a 46 public school located within the city school district of the city of New 47 York, one of whom shall be a student in attendance and registered in a 48 sports or recreation program at a non-public school located within the 49 city school district of the city of New York and the chancellor of the 50 city school district of the city of New York or his or her represen- 51 tative. 52 2. Each member of the committee shall serve a term of three years 53 without remuneration; provided, however, that the student represen- 54 tatives shall serve for a term of one year and be reimbursed for his or 55 her actual travel expenses. The chancellor of the city school districtA. 242 3 1 of the city of New York shall have the power to remove members and reap- 2 point members. 3 3. The chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York 4 shall name a chairperson of the committee and shall establish the rules 5 of operation of the committee. 6 4. Such committee shall advise and make recommendations to the chan- 7 cellor of the city school district of the city of New York as to which 8 school sports and recreation programs are determined by the committee to 9 be eligible for financial support. For the purpose of determining eligi- 10 bility, the committee shall consider programs involving the greatest 11 number of participants. 12 5. The chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York 13 shall establish and periodically update a list of interested volunteers 14 and persons recommended for appointment by public officials or school 15 administrators from which appointments to such committee shall be made. 16 6. The chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York 17 shall exercise due diligence to insure that such committee's composition 18 provides equal geographic representation. 19 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 97-pppp 20 to read as follows: 21 § 97-pppp. The New York schools sports and recreation fund. 1. There 22 is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the 23 commissioner of taxation and finance an account to be known as the New 24 York schools sports and recreation fund. Such account shall consist of 25 all fees received pursuant to section five hundred-a of the education 26 law and all other monies credited or transferred thereto from any other 27 fund or source pursuant to law. 28 2. Fees received from a city pursuant to section five hundred-a of the 29 education law shall be kept separate from the monies received from any 30 other city depositing money pursuant to section five hundred-a of the 31 education law and shall be credited only to the city depositing such 32 monies. 33 3. The comptroller shall invest and keep invested all moneys belonging 34 to the fund in the manner authorized by section ninety-eight of this 35 article. 36 4. Commencing on or before August fifteenth, two thousand nineteen and 37 on or before the fifteenth day of August of each succeeding year, the 38 comptroller shall issue a certificate of earnings and accumulated income 39 upon the principal of such fund as of the end of the preceding state 40 fiscal year to the president of the school board, or to the chancellor 41 of the city school district of the city of New York in the case of the 42 city school district of the city of New York. Such certificate shall 43 also include a statement of accumulated income for the prior fiscal 44 years remaining unexpended at the close of such year. 45 5. Monies of the account may be expended pursuant to subdivision two 46 of section five hundred-a of the education law. Monies shall be paid 47 out of the account upon the audit and warrant of the state comptroller 48 pursuant to such section. 49 6. The monies held in or credited to the fund shall be expended for 50 the purposes set forth in section five hundred-a of the education law, 51 and may not be interchanged or commingled with any other account or fund 52 but may be commingled with any other fund for investment purposes. 53 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 54 have become a law; provided, however, that if no eligible city adopts a 55 local law pursuant to section 500-a of the education law as added by 56 section two of this act, this act shall be deemed repealed 1 year afterA. 242 4 1 such date provided that the New York city schools sports and recreation 2 advisory committee shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission 3 upon the occurrence of the enactment of the legislation provided for in 4 this act in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and time- 5 ly effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state of 6 New York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of section 44 of the 7 legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
