Bill Text: NY A06060 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to payment of prior year school aid; requires payment within one year of a filed claim.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A06060 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06060-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6060
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 11, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to payment of moneys due
          school districts for prior years claims
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as added by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    c. Payment of moneys due for prior years. State aid payments  due  for
     5  prior  years in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision shall
     6  be paid within [the  limit  of  the  appropriation  designated  therefor
     7  provided,  however,  that  each  eligible  claim shall be payable in the
     8  order that it has been approved for payment by the commissioner, but  in
     9  no  case  shall  a single claim draw down more than forty percent of the
    10  appropriation so designated for a single year, and provided further that
    11  no claim shall be set  aside  for  insufficiency  of  funds  to  make  a
    12  complete  payment,  but  shall  be eligible for a partial payment in one
    13  year and shall retain its priority date status for appropriations desig-
    14  nated for such purposes in future years] one year of the  submission  of
    15  such claim.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09223-01-5