Bill Text: NY A02644 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides Yonkers city school district with additional supplemental education improvement plan funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A02644 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02644-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2644
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing the  Yonkers
          city  school  district with additional supplemental education improve-
          ment plan funds
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of  the  laws
     3  of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b.  To  the Yonkers city school district there shall be paid seventeen
     5  million five hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) on an  annual  basis
     6  plus  an  amount  equivalent to the percentage increase, carried to four
     7  decimals, in the Yonkers city school district public enrollment pursuant
     8  to foundation aid under subdivision four of section  thirty-six  hundred
     9  two of this article from the two thousand fourteen--two thousand fifteen
    10  school  year  to  the  two thousand fifteen--two thousand sixteen school
    11  year multiplied by the district's foundation aid amount.  Such  increase
    12  shall  not  be  subject to section two hundred eleven-d of this chapter.
    13  Such grant shall be payable from funds appropriated for such purpose and
    14  shall be apportioned to the Yonkers city school district  in  accordance
    15  with  the  payment  schedules  contained  in  section thirty-six hundred
    16  nine-a of this article, notwithstanding any  provision  of  law  to  the
    17  contrary.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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