Bill Text: NY A08013 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the calculation by which to determine yearly tuition and regional rate reimbursement for approved school-age and preschool special education programs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-10 - substituted by s6516a [A08013 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08013-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8013

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BENEDETTO -- (at request of the State Education
          Department) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  providing  an  annual
          growth amount for tuition and regional rate reimbursement for approved
          school-age and preschool special education programs

          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 4 of section 4405 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as  amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. The director of the budget, in consultation with  the  commissioner
     5  [of education], the commissioner of social services, and any other state
     6  agency  or other source the director may deem appropriate, shall approve
     7  reimbursement methodologies for tuition and for maintenance. Any modifi-
     8  cation in the approved reimbursement methodologies shall be  subject  to
     9  the  approval  of the director of the budget. [Notwithstanding any other
    10  provision of law, rule or regulation  to  the  contrary,  tuition  rates
    11  established for the nineteen hundred ninety-five--ninety-six school year
    12  shall  exclude  the  two percent cost of living adjustment authorized in
    13  rates established  for  the  nineteen  hundred  ninety-four--ninety-five
    14  school  year.]  Tuition and/or regional rates approved for the two thou-
    15  sand twenty-one--two thousand twenty-two school year and thereafter  for
    16  special services or programs provided to school-age students by approved
    17  private  residential  or  non-residential  schools  for the education of
    18  students with disabilities that are located within the state, by special
    19  act school districts, and by July and August programs for students  with
    20  disabilities  approved  pursuant  to section forty-four hundred eight of
    21  this article, and for special services or programs provided to preschool
    22  students  by  programs  serving  preschool  students  with  disabilities
    23  approved  pursuant  to  section  forty-four  hundred ten of this article
    24  including, but not limited to, special class and  special  class  in  an

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08508-04-1
        A. 8013                             2

     1  integrated  setting  programs,  multi-disciplinary  evaluation programs,
     2  special  education  itinerant  services,  and  preschool  transportation
     3  services  for  which tuition and/or regional rates are determined, shall
     4  grow by a percentage equal to the greater of:  (i) the difference of the
     5  quotient  arrived  at  when  dividing  the  statewide apportionments for
     6  general support for public schools, as defined  in  subdivision  one  of
     7  section  thirty-six hundred nine-a of this chapter, for the current year
     8  by such apportionments for the base year, as such terms are  defined  in
     9  subdivision  one  of  section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter, as
    10  computed based on an electronic data file used to produce the school aid
    11  computer listing produced by the commissioner in support of the  enacted
    12  budget for the current year, less one; or (ii) zero.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.