Bill Text: NY A10274 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to transportation aid; provides an equation for the calculation of transportation aid for transportation after 4pm.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A10274 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10274-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10274

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2024
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Eichenstein)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation aid

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3627  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by section 13-a of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  any
     5  expenditures for transportation provided pursuant to this section in the
     6  two  thousand thirteen--two thousand fourteen school year and thereafter
     7  and otherwise eligible for transportation aid  pursuant  to  subdivision
     8  seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this article shall be consid-
     9  ered  approved  transportation expenses eligible for transportation aid,
    10  provided further that for the two thousand thirteen--two thousand  four-
    11  teen  school year such aid shall be limited to eight million one hundred
    12  thousand dollars and for the two thousand fourteen--two thousand fifteen
    13  school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twelve  million  six
    14  hundred  thousand  dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand
    15  fifteen--two thousand sixteen school year  through  two  thousand  eigh-
    16  teen--two thousand nineteen school year such aid shall be limited to the
    17  sum  of  eighteen  million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the
    18  base amount and for  the  two  thousand  nineteen--two  thousand  twenty
    19  school  year  such  aid  shall be limited to the sum of nineteen million
    20  three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount  and  for  the
    21  two  thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school year such aid shall
    22  be limited to the sum of nineteen million eight hundred  fifty  thousand
    23  dollars  plus  the  base amount and for the two thousand twenty-two--two
    24  thousand twenty-three school year such aid shall be limited to  the  sum
    25  of twenty-two million three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base
    26  amount  and  for the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand twenty-four
    27  school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twenty-four  million
    28  eight  hundred  fifty  thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the
    29  two thousand twenty-four--two  thousand  twenty-five  school  year  [and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15539-01-4
        A. 10274                            2

     1  thereafter]  such aid shall be limited to the sum of twenty-nine million
     2  eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount  and  for  the
     3  two thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year and there-
     4  after  such  aid  shall be limited to the maximum amount of aid from the
     5  base year plus the product of (a) the maximum amount of aid  under  this
     6  subdivision from the base year, multiplied by (b) the product of two and
     7  one-half,  further  multiplied  by  (c)  the  positive difference of the
     8  personal income growth index as defined in paragraph bb  of  subdivision
     9  one  of  section  thirty-six  hundred two of this article less one.  For
    10  purposes of this subdivision, "base amount" means the amount  of  trans-
    11  portation  aid  paid to the school district for expenditures incurred in
    12  the two thousand twelve--two thousand thirteen school year for transpor-
    13  tation that would have been eligible for aid pursuant  to  this  section
    14  had  this section been in effect in such school year, except that subdi-
    15  vision six of this section shall be deemed not to have been  in  effect.
    16  And provided further that the school district shall continue to annually
    17  expend  for  the  transportation  described  in  subdivision one of this
    18  section at least the expenditures used for the base amount.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025; provided, however,  that
    20  if  section  13-a  of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024 shall not
    21  have taken effect on or before such date then section one  of  this  act
    22  shall  take effect on the same date and in the same manner as such chap-
    23  ter of the laws of 2024, takes effect.