Bill Text: NY A07481 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A07481 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07481-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7481 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educa- tional services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2022, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 b. The cost of services herein referred to shall be the amount allo- 5 cated to each component school district by the board of cooperative 6 educational services to defray expenses of such board, including 7 approved expenses from the testing of potable water systems of occupied 8 school buildings under the board's jurisdiction as required pursuant to 9 section eleven hundred ten of the public health law provided that such 10 expenses for testing of potable water systems are not reimbursable from 11 another state or federal source, except that that part of the salary 12 paid any teacher, supervisor or other employee of the board of cooper- 13 ative educational services which is in excess of thirty thousand dollars 14 shall not be such an approved expense, and except also that administra- 15 tive and clerical expenses shall not exceed ten percent of the total 16 expenses for purposes of this computation. Provided, however, beginning 17 with expenses incurred in the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand 18 twenty-four school year and thereafter, that part of the salary paid to 19 any teacher, supervisor or other employee of a board of cooperative 20 educational services which is in excess of the lesser of the actual 21 salary or the average statewide salary for such teaching, supervisory, 22 or other position as established by the commissioner shall not be an 23 approved expense, and further provided that administrative and clerical 24 expenses shall not exceed ten percent of the total expenses for purposes EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09622-01-3A. 7481 2 1 of this computation. Any gifts, donations or interest earned by the 2 board of cooperative educational services or on behalf of the board of 3 cooperative educational services by the dormitory authority or any other 4 source shall not be deducted in determining the cost of services allo- 5 cated to each component school district. Any payments made to a compo- 6 nent school district by the board of cooperative educational services 7 pursuant to subdivision eleven of section six-p of the general municipal 8 law attributable to an approved cost of service computed pursuant to 9 this subdivision shall be deducted from the cost of services allocated 10 to such component school district. The expense of transportation 11 provided by the board of cooperative educational services pursuant to 12 paragraph q of subdivision four of this section shall be eligible for 13 aid apportioned pursuant to subdivision seven of section thirty-six 14 hundred two of this chapter and no board of cooperative educational 15 services transportation expense shall be an approved cost of services 16 for the computation of aid under this subdivision. Transportation 17 expense pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision four of this section 18 shall be included in the computation of the ten percent limitation on 19 administrative and clerical expenses. 20 § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 10 of section 3602 of the education 21 law, as amended by section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 22 2007, is amended to read as follows: 23 b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to such city 24 school districts and other school districts which were not components of 25 a board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils 26 in grades ten through twelve in attendance in career education programs 27 as such programs are defined by the commissioner, subject for the 28 purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the budg- 29 et, an amount for each such pupil to be computed by multiplying the 30 career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars] the 31 district's selected foundation aid as determined pursuant to subdivision 32 four of this section. Such aid will be payable for weighted pupils 33 attending career education programs operated by the school district and 34 for weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts with boards 35 of cooperative educational services to attend career education programs 36 operated by a board of cooperative educational services. Weighted pupils 37 for the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of the attendance 38 of students in grades ten through twelve in career education sequences 39 in trade, industrial, technical, agricultural or health programs plus 40 the product of sixteen hundredths multiplied by the attendance of 41 students in grades ten through twelve in career education sequences in 42 business and marketing as defined by the commissioner in regulations. 43 The career education aid ratio shall be computed by subtracting from one 44 the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine percent by the combined 45 wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed as a decimal carried to 46 three places without rounding, but not less than thirty-six percent. 47 Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall 48 be required to use such amount to support career education programs in 49 the current year. 50 A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined 51 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year 52 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi- 53 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current or a 54 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive 55 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in 56 support of career education programs were continued at a level equal toA. 7481 3 1 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the 2 preceding school year. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the 4 calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career education payable in the 5 2023-2024 school year and years thereafter.
