Bill Text: NY A05618 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to reimbursement methodologies for tuition.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-21 - tabled [A05618 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05618-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         5618--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 13, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, BUCHWALD, BYRNE, LUPARDO, GALEF -- read
          once  and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
          reported  and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reimbursement  method-
          ologies for tuition
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as  amended by chapter 53 of the laws of 1990, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a. The commissioner [of education]  and  the  commissioner  of  social
     5  services  shall  develop reimbursement methodologies for the tuition and
     6  maintenance components of  approved  private  schools  and  special  act
     7  school  districts. The commissioner [of education], in consultation with
     8  the appropriate state agencies and departments, shall have  responsibil-
     9  ity  for  developing  [a]  reimbursement [methodology] methodologies for
    10  tuition which shall be  based  upon  appropriate  educational  standards
    11  promulgated  pursuant to regulations of the commissioner [of education].
    12  The commissioner of social services, in  consultation  with  appropriate
    13  state agencies and departments, shall have responsibility for developing
    14  a  reimbursement  methodology for maintenance, pursuant to section three
    15  hundred ninety-eight-a of the social services law  and  the  regulations
    16  promulgated thereunder.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09611-02-8
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