Bill Text: NY A04648 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Adjusts the regional labor force cost index for the Hudson Valley region for the 2022-2023 school year and thereafter.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-27 - held for consideration in education [A04648 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04648-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4648--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. LAWLER, DURSO, MANKTELOW, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO --
          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 adjusting the regional
          cost index for state school aid with  respect  to  the  Hudson  Valley
          region

          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) (A) The regional cost index shall reflect  an  analysis  of  labor
     5  market  costs  based on median salaries in professional occupations that
     6  require similar credentials to  those  of  positions  in  the  education
     7  field,  but  not  including  those  occupations  in the education field,
     8  provided that the regional cost indices for the two thousand  seven--two
     9  thousand  eight  school  year  [and thereafter] through the two thousand
    10  twenty-one--two thousand twenty-two school year 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            Long Island/NYC     1.425
    17            Finger Lakes        1.141
    18            Central New York    1.103
    19            Mohawk Valley       1.000
    20            North Country       1.000

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08544-02-2
        A. 4648--A                          2

     1    (B) For the two thousand twenty-two--two thousand twenty-three  school
     2  year and thereafter the regional cost indices shall be as follows:
     3            Labor Force Region  Index
     4            Capital District    1.124
     5            Southern Tier       1.045
     6            Western New York    1.091
     7            Hudson Valley       1.425
     8            Long Island/NYC     1.425
     9            Finger Lakes        1.141
    10            Central New York    1.103
    11            Mohawk Valley       1.000
    12            North Country       1.000
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.