Bill Text: NY A00544 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to calculating foundation aid for school districts using the three year average small area income and poverty estimate poverty rate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A00544 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00544-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           544

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to calculating foundation
          aid  using  the three year average small area income and poverty esti-
          mate poverty rate

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (ii)  of  paragraph  q  of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 3602 of the education law, as amended by section 16 of part  YYY
     3  of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ii)  "Census  count"  shall  mean  the  product  of the public school
     5  enrollment of the school district on the date enrollment was counted  in
     6  accordance  with  this  subdivision  for the base year multiplied by the
     7  [census 2000 poverty] three year average small area income  and  poverty
     8  estimate poverty rate.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00327-01-3