Bill Text: NY A02916 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education and commissioner of labor to study the appropriateness of county placement in the regional cost index used for the school aid formula.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-15 - enacting clause stricken [A02916 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02916-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2916 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to direct the commissioner of education and the commissioner of labor to study the appropriateness of county placement in the regional cost index used for the school aid formula The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The New York state education department ("the department") 2 shall, in consultation with the New York state department of labor, 3 study and review the geographic cost variations of the counties located 4 in the Hudson Valley labor force region to determine the appropriateness 5 of the regional cost index values used within the public school founda- 6 tion aid formula, as well as county placement in the Hudson Valley 7 region. The department shall consider the appropriateness of moving any 8 of the counties of Orange, Rockland, Westchester, Dutchess or Putnam 9 currently within the Hudson Valley region into the Long Island/New York 10 city region. The department shall consult with the New York state 11 department of labor to review labor costs for the Hudson Valley region 12 and the Long Island/New York city region. The department shall also 13 review the regional costs associated with construction and study the 14 impact on applying an up to date cost index on public school building 15 aid reimbursement. 16 § 2. The department shall, on or before March 1, 2024, report the 17 findings, conclusions and recommendations of the study required by 18 section one of this act to the governor, the temporary president of the 19 senate and the speaker of the assembly. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07490-01-3