Bill Text: NY A01585 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of tuition for children with handicapping conditions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-08 - print number 1585a [A01585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01585-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1585--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ABINANTI, PRETLOW, SIMON, BENEDETTO, GUNTHER,
          CAHILL, RA, OTIS, BUCHWALD,  M. G. MILLER,  PAULIN,  GOODELL,  HAWLEY,
          JAFFEE  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF, HEVESI,
          LUPARDO, MOSLEY, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Education  --  recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the definition of
          "tuition" for children with handicapping conditions

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 4401 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 470 of the laws  of  1977,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5.  "Tuition"  shall  mean  the  per  pupil  cost of all instructional
     5  services, supplies and equipment, the operation, maintenance and  admin-
     6  istration of instructional facilities and allocable debt service for the
     7  instructional  facilities,  as determined by the commissioner. [Approved
     8  tuition] It shall also include direct reimbursement outside  the  direct
     9  and indirect costs screens, of actual public expenses calculated annual-
    10  ly.    Tuition shall be computed from expenditures from which no revenue
    11  has been received from the following sources:
    12    (a) receipts from the federal government;
    13    (b) any cash receipts which reduce the cost of an item applied against
    14  the item therefor, except gifts, donations and earned interest[,]; and
    15    (c) any refunds made or any apportionment or payment received from the
    16  state for experimental or special programs as approved  by  the  commis-
    17  sioner.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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