Bill Text: NY A05659 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing aid to school districts for expenses related to the school districts' use of electricity, propane, natural gas, and/or heating oil for the school year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A05659 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05659-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5659 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN, FINCH, RAIA, GIGLIO, GRAF -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing aid to school districts for expenses related to the school districts' use of electricity, propane, natural gas, and/or heating oil for the school year 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 27 to read as follows: 3 27. Aid for electricity, propane, natural gas, and/or heating oil for 4 the school year. a. Commencing with aid payable in the two thousand 5 seventeen--two thousand eighteen school year, the commissioner is hereby 6 authorized to apportion to any school district aid pursuant to this 7 subdivision for its approved expenditures, in excess of base year aid 8 received, for expenses related to the cost of electricity, propane, 9 natural gas, and/or heating oil for the school year. 10 b. Aid pursuant to this subdivision shall equal twenty-five percent of 11 the school district's cost for its use of electricity, propane, natural 12 gas, and/or heating oil throughout the school year. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08525-01-7
