Bill Text: NY A07481 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-3)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - print number 7481a [A07481 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07481-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7481--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD, GUNTHER, BARRETT, LUPARDO, BURDICK, CURRAN, SLATER, SHRESTHA, LUNSFORD, MCGOWAN, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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, (i) for the two thousand twenty- 14 four--two thousand twenty-five school year and prior school years in 15 excess of thirty thousand dollars, (ii) for aid payable in the two thou- 16 sand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year in excess of forty 17 thousand dollars, (iii) for aid payable in the two thousand twenty-six- 18 -two thousand twenty-seven school year in excess of fifty thousand 19 dollars, and (iv) for aid payable in the two thousand twenty-seven--two 20 thousand twenty-eight school year and thereafter, in excess of sixty EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09622-03-4A. 7481--A 2 1 thousand dollars, shall not be such an approved expense, and except also 2 that administrative and clerical expenses shall not exceed ten percent 3 of the total expenses for purposes of this computation. Any gifts, 4 donations or interest earned by the board of cooperative educational 5 services or on behalf of the board of cooperative educational services 6 by the dormitory authority or any other source shall not be deducted in 7 determining the cost of services allocated to each component school 8 district. Any payments made to a component school district by the board 9 of cooperative educational services pursuant to subdivision eleven of 10 section six-p of the general municipal law attributable to an approved 11 cost of service computed pursuant to this subdivision shall be deducted 12 from the cost of services allocated to such component school district. 13 The expense of transportation provided by the board of cooperative 14 educational services pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision four of this 15 section shall be eligible for aid apportioned pursuant to subdivision 16 seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter and no board of 17 cooperative educational services transportation expense shall be an 18 approved cost of services for the computation of aid under this subdivi- 19 sion. Transportation expense pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision 20 four of this section shall be included in the computation of the ten 21 percent limitation on administrative and clerical expenses. 22 § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 10 of section 3602 of the education 23 law, as amended by section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 24 2007, is amended to read as follows: 25 b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to such city 26 school districts and other school districts which were not components of 27 a board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils 28 in grades [ten] nine through twelve in attendance in career education 29 programs as such programs are defined by the commissioner, subject for 30 the purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the 31 budget, an amount for each such pupil to be computed by multiplying the 32 career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars] four 33 thousand one hundred dollars. Such aid will be payable for weighted 34 pupils attending career education programs operated by the school 35 district and for weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts 36 with boards of cooperative educational services to attend career educa- 37 tion programs operated by a board of cooperative educational services. 38 Weighted pupils for the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of 39 the attendance of students in grades [ten] nine through twelve in career 40 education sequences in trade, industrial, technical, agricultural or 41 health programs plus the product of sixteen hundredths multiplied by the 42 attendance of students in grades [ten] nine through twelve in career 43 education sequences in business and marketing as defined by the commis- 44 sioner in regulations. The career education aid ratio shall be computed 45 by subtracting from one the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine 46 percent by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed 47 as a decimal carried to three places without rounding, but not less than 48 thirty-six percent. 49 Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall 50 be required to use such amount to support career education programs in 51 the current year. 52 A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined 53 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year 54 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi- 55 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current or a 56 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waiveA. 7481--A 3 1 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in 2 support of career education programs were continued at a level equal to 3 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the 4 preceding school year. 5 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the 6 calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career education payable in the 7 2024-2025 school year and years thereafter.
