Bill Text: NY A09024 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9024 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts the "New York Charter Schools Financial Renewal Act"; relates to payments by school districts to charter schools relating to the expense per pupil of the school district.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - referred to education [A09024 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09024-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9024
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 19, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to payments by school
          districts to charter schools relating to the expense per pupil of  the
          school district
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the  "New  York
     2  Charter Schools Financial Renewal Act".
     3    §  2.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2856 of the education
     4  law, as amended by section 3 of part BB of chapter 56  of  the  laws  of
     5  2014, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (a)  The  enrollment  of  students  attending charter schools shall be
     7  included in the enrollment, attendance, membership and,  if  applicable,
     8  count  of students with disabilities of the school district in which the
     9  pupil resides. The charter school shall report  all  such  data  to  the
    10  school  districts  of residence in a timely manner. Each school district
    11  shall report such enrollment, attendance  and  count  of  students  with
    12  disabilities  to  the department. The school district of residence shall
    13  pay directly to the charter school for  each  student  enrolled  in  the
    14  charter  school  who  resides  in the school district the charter school
    15  basic tuition, which shall be:
    16    (i) for school years prior to the two thousand nine--two thousand  ten
    17  school year and for school years following the two thousand sixteen--two
    18  thousand  seventeen  school year, an amount equal to one hundred percent
    19  of the amount calculated pursuant to paragraph f of subdivision  one  of
    20  section  thirty-six  hundred two of this chapter for the school district
    21  for the year prior to the base year increased by the  percentage  change
    22  in  the  state  total  approved operating expense calculated pursuant to
    23  paragraph t of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this
    24  chapter from two years prior to the base year  to  the  base  year;  the
    25  amount  of  the  approved  operating expense used in the creation of all
    26  such calculations shall  be  equal  to  the  actual  approved  operating
    27  expense of the school district of residence for each pupil determined in
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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