Bill Text: NY A03269 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to Tier 1 high tax aid apportionment and foundation aid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A03269 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03269-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3269

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        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 Tier 1  high  tax  aid
          apportionment and foundation aid

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4  of  section
     2  3602  of  the  education  law,  as amended by section 9-b of part CCC of
     3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (2) The regional cost index shall reflect an analysis of labor  market
     5  costs  based on median salaries in professional occupations that require
     6  similar credentials to those of positions in the  education  field,  but
     7  not  including  those  occupations in the education field, provided that
     8  the regional cost indices for  the  [two  thousand  seven--two  thousand
     9  eight]  two thousand twenty-one--two thousand twenty-two school year and
    10  thereafter shall be as follows:
    11            Labor Force Region  Index
    12            Capital District    1.124
    13            Southern Tier       1.045
    14            Western New York    1.091
    15            Hudson Valley       1.314
    16            (excluding
    17            Westchester)
    18            Westchester         1.425
    19            Long Island/NYC     1.425
    20            Finger Lakes        1.141
    21            Central New York    1.103
    22            Mohawk Valley       1.000
    23            North Country       1.000

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00392-01-1
        A. 3269                             2

     1    § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 16 of section 3602  of  the  education
     2  law,  as  amended  by  section 18 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of
     3  2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b.  Tier  1 high tax aid apportionment. For any tier 1 eligible school
     5  district, the tier 1 high tax aid apportionment shall be the greater  of
     6  (1) the product of the public school district enrollment of the district
     7  in  the base year, as computed pursuant to subparagraph two of paragraph
     8  n of subdivision one of this section, multiplied by the product of  four
     9  hundred  fifty dollars multiplied by the state sharing ratio, or (2) one
    10  hundred thousand dollars. In no event shall a district receive less than
    11  the amount to which it was entitled pursuant to this paragraph.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.