Bill Text: NY A08850 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides an incentive apportionment for certain school districts that demonstrate lower allowable transportation expenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A08850 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08850-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8850
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    December 22, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  apportionment  for
          certain school districts for lower allowable transportation expenses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section  3602  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
     3    f.  In addition to any other apportionment under this subdivision, for
     4  the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school year and thereaft-
     5  er, a school district other than a city school district in a city having
     6  a population of one million or more inhabitants shall be eligible for an
     7  incentive apportionment where  such  district  can  demonstrate  to  the
     8  commissioner  cost  savings  and  efficiencies  that  results in a lower
     9  allowable transportation expense for the base year compared to the  year
    10  prior  to  the  base  year; provided, however, that such school district
    11  meets the requirements set forth in subparagraph  three  of  this  para-
    12  graph.
    13    (1)  The  amount  of such incentive apportionment under this paragraph
    14  shall be equal to the product of:
    15    (i) the positive difference in such district's  allowable  transporta-
    16  tion  expense  for the year prior to the base year minus such district's
    17  allowable transportation expense for the base year; and
    18    (ii) ten percent.
    19    (2) The commissioner shall be authorized to approve  a  claim  for  an
    20  incentive  apportionment under this paragraph provided a school district
    21  claiming an incentive apportionment shall have implemented  an  approved
    22  transportation  efficiency  plan  and  documented  such cost savings and
    23  efficiencies in accordance with guidelines established  by  the  commis-
    24  sioner.  If  the  total  statewide incentive apportionment claimed under
    25  this paragraph exceeds three million  dollars  ($3,000,000),  individual
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13706-01-7
        A. 8850                             2
     1  school  district  incentive  apportionments  shall be prorated to ensure
     2  that the total statewide incentive apportionment does not  exceed  three
     3  million  dollars ($3,000,000), provided that such prorated apportionment
     4  computed  and payable as of September one of the school year immediately
     5  following the school year for which such aid is claimed shall be  deemed
     6  final and not subject to change.
     7    (3)  To  be  eligible for the incentive apportionment under this para-
     8  graph:
     9    (i) Such district must be  an  independent  school  district  that  is
    10  subject  to the provisions of section two thousand twenty-three-a of the
    11  education law and that has adopted a budget that does not exceed the tax
    12  levy limit prescribed by that section. The school district must  certify
    13  its  compliance  with  such  tax  levy limit in the manner prescribed by
    14  subdivision two of section two thousand twenty-three-b of the  education
    15  law;
    16    (ii) such district must be a dependent school district that is subject
    17  to  the  provisions  of section three-c of the general municipal law and
    18  that has adopted a budget that  does  not  exceed  the  tax  levy  limit
    19  prescribed  by  that  section. The city must certify its compliance with
    20  such tax levy limit in the  manner  prescribed  by  subdivision  two  of
    21  section three-d of the general municipal law; and
    22    (iii)  such  district  must  have  a  transportation  efficiency  plan
    23  approved by the commissioner.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.