Bill Text: NY A05040 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides reimbursement to districts for any student attending a boards of cooperative educational services program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - referred to education [A05040 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05040-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5040

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 11, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACOBSON, RAGA, EACHUS -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  reimbursement  for
          students  attending  a  boards  of  cooperative  educational  services
          program

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  3602 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 14-a to read as follows:
     3    14-a. Districts shall be reimbursed for any  actual  expense  incurred
     4  related  to  a  student  attending  a  boards of cooperative educational
     5  services program.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
     7  if  upon  such effective date, an appropriation to the education depart-
     8  ment shall not have been made for reimbursement of school districts  and
     9  boards  of  cooperative  educational services for the purposes of imple-
    10  menting the provisions of subdivision 14-a of section 3602 of the educa-
    11  tion law, as added by section one of this act, then this act shall  take
    12  effect  on  the forty-fifth day after such an appropriation is made, and
    13  provided, further, that the division of  the  budget  shall  notify  the
    14  legislative  bill  drafting  commission  upon  enactment whether such an
    15  appropriation has been made, and if such appropriation  shall  not  have
    16  been made on or before such date, the division of the budget shall noti-
    17  fy the legislative bill drafting commission upon the date such an appro-
    18  priation shall have been made, in order that the commission may maintain
    19  an  accurate  and timely effective data base of the official text of the
    20  laws of the state  of  New  York  in  furtherance  of  effectuating  the
    21  provisions  of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
    22  public officers law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02334-01-5