Bill Text: NY A01114 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that school districts, including the city school district of the city of New York, are entitled to an apportionment of state aid for the closure of schools due in response to the novel coronavirus.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A01114 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01114-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1114

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the attendance of
          minors upon full  day  instruction  and  the  conditions  under  which
          districts, including the city school district of the city of New York,
          are  entitled  to  an  apportionment  of  state aid and the closure of
          schools due in response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section 3604 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 107 of the laws  of  2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    7.  No district shall be entitled to any portion of such school moneys
     5  on such apportionment unless the report of  the  trustees  or  board  of
     6  education  for  the  preceding  school  year  shall show that the public
     7  schools were actually in session in the district and taught by a  quali-
     8  fied  teacher or by successive qualified teachers or by qualified teach-
     9  ers for not less than one hundred eighty days. The moneys payable  to  a
    10  school  district  pursuant  to section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this
    11  part in the current year shall be reduced by one  one-hundred  eightieth
    12  of  the  district's  total foundation aid for the base year for each day
    13  less than one hundred eighty days that the schools of the district  were
    14  actually  in  session,  except  that the commissioner may disregard such
    15  reduction in the apportionment of public money: (i) for any day or  days
    16  on  which  session  had been previously scheduled but the superintendent
    17  was required to close the school or schools due to a  properly  executed
    18  declaration  of  a state or local state of emergency pursuant to article
    19  two-B of the executive law; or (ii) for up to five days  if  he  or  she
    20  finds  that  the  schools  of  the  district were not in session for one
    21  hundred eighty days because of extraordinarily  adverse  weather  condi-
    22  tions,  impairment of heating facilities, insufficiency of water supply,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02119-01-1
        A. 1114                             2

     1  shortage of fuel, lack of electricity, natural gas leakage, unacceptable
     2  levels of chemical substances, a credible threat to  student  safety  as
     3  reasonably  determined by a lead school official or the destruction of a
     4  school building either in whole or in part, and if, further, the commis-
     5  sioner  finds that such district cannot make up such days of instruction
     6  by using for the secondary grades  all  scheduled  vacation  days  which
     7  occur  prior to the first scheduled regents examination day in June, and
     8  for the elementary grades all scheduled vacation days which occur  prior
     9  to  the last scheduled regents examination day in June; or (iii) for any
    10  day or days in the two thousand nineteen -- two thousand  twenty  school
    11  year  or the two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school year on
    12  which session had been previously scheduled but the  chancellor  of  the
    13  city  school district of the city of New York or the superintendent of a
    14  district closed the school or schools due  to  a  determination  by  the
    15  chancellor  or superintendent that it was in the best interest of public
    16  health or safety of the school district to close the school  or  schools
    17  in response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. For the purposes of this
    18  subdivision,  "scheduled  vacation  days"  shall  mean days on which the
    19  schools of the district are not in session and for which no  prohibition
    20  exists in subdivision eight of this section for them to be in session.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.