Bill Text: NY A07175 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7175 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of aid for high cost students with disabilities; provides financial support in the first year when a new high cost student with a disability moves into a school district during the school year with an individualized education program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A07175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07175-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7175
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 27, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  the  distribution  of
         aid for high cost students with disabilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 3609-b of the education law is amended by adding  a
    2  new third undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
    3    FOR  AID  PAYABLE  IN  THE  TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN
    4  SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER, "MONEYS APPORTIONED" SHALL MEAN CURRENT YEAR
    5  AID PROVIDED FOR CURRENT YEAR EXPENSES FOR NEW HIGH COST  STUDENTS  WITH
    6  DISABILITIES  THAT MOVE INTO THE DISTRICT DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR WITH AN
    7  INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM FROM A COMMITTEE ON  SPECIAL  EDUCATION
    8  OF ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT.
    9    S  2.  Paragraph  c  of subdivision 3 of section 4405 of the education
   10  law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
   11  follows:
   12    c. The apportionments to each school district pursuant to this  subdi-
   13  vision shall be based on excess cost paid and attendance during the base
   14  year EXCEPT, BEGINNING IN THE TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN
   15  SCHOOL  YEAR  AND  THEREAFTER,  "MONEYS  APPORTIONED"  SHALL BE BASED ON
   16  EXCESS COST PAID AND ATTENDANCE DURING THE CURRENT YEAR FOR NEW STUDENTS
   17  WITH DISABILITIES THAT MOVE INTO THE DISTRICT  DURING  THE  SCHOOL  YEAR
   18  WITH  AN  INDIVIDUALIZED  EDUCATION  PROGRAM FROM A COMMITTEE ON SPECIAL
   19  EDUCATION OF ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT REQUIRING  ATTENDANCE  AT  APPROVED
   20  PRIVATE SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
   21    S  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
   22  the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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