Bill Text: NY A10078 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the SAT school day program and the SAT school day fund; directs the department of education to establish and maintain the SAT school day program to enter into contract with the college board to provide the annual administration of the SATs at all public secondary schools free of charge during one regular school day.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-14 - referred to education [A10078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10078-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10078
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 14, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the SAT
          school day program; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to
          establishing the SAT school day fund
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 342-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 342-b. SAT school day program. 1. The department shall establish and
     4  maintain the SAT school day program whereby the department shall utilize
     5  funds made available from the SAT school day fund, pursuant  to  section
     6  eighty-nine-i  of the state finance law, to enter into contract with the
     7  college board to provide the annual  administration  of  the  Scholastic
     8  Aptitude  Test to all test subjects at all public secondary schools free
     9  of charge during a regular school day.
    10    2. Each test subject shall be permitted to take the  Scholastic  Apti-
    11  tude  Test  free  of  charge,  as  provided  in  subdivision one of this
    12  section, only once.
    13    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 89-i  to
    14  read as follows:
    15    §  89-i.  SAT  school  day fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
    16  joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of  taxation
    17  and finance, a special fund to be known as the "SAT school day fund".
    18    2.  Such  fund shall consist of any moneys appropriated to the fund by
    19  the state in addition to all  other  moneys  appropriated,  credited  or
    20  transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Noth-
    21  ing  contained  herein  shall  prevent  the state from receiving grants,
    22  gifts or bequests for the purposes  of  the  fund  as  defined  in  this
    23  section and depositing them into the fund according to law.
    24    3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for the administration of
    25  the  Scholastic  Aptitude  Test  to test subjects in accordance with the
    26  provisions of section three hundred forty-two-b of the education law.
    27    4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
    28  the comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner of education.
    29    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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