Bill Text: NY A10683 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides financial aid to certain school districts which provide half-day kindergarten programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - referred to education [A10683 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A10683-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10683 IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing financial aid to certain school districts which provide half-day kindergarten programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs a and c of subdivision 9 of section 3602 of the 2 education law, paragraph a as amended by section 9 of part A of chapter 3 57 of the laws of 2013 and paragraph c as added by section 12 of part 4 CCC of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, are amended to read as follows: 5 a. For aid payable in the two thousand seven--two thousand eight 6 school year and the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school 7 year and the two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school year 8 and thereafter, school districts which provided any half-day kindergar- 9 ten programs or had no kindergarten programs in the nineteen hundred 10 ninety-six--ninety-seven school year and in the base year, and which 11 have not received an apportionment pursuant to this paragraph in any 12 prior school year, shall be eligible for aid equal to the product of the 13 district's selected foundation aid calculated pursuant to subdivision 14 four of this section multiplied by the positive difference resulting 15 when the full day kindergarten enrollment of children attending programs 16 in the district in the base year is subtracted from such enrollment in 17 the current year. 18 c. [Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision,19school] For aid payable in the two thousand eighteen--two thousand nine- 20 teen or two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school year, school 21 districts which provided any half-day kindergarten programs or had no 22 kindergarten programs in the nineteen hundred ninety-six--ninety-seven 23 school year and in the base year, and which have not received an appor- 24 tionment pursuant to this paragraph in any prior school year, shall be 25 eligible for aid equal to the product of the district's selected founda- 26 tion aid calculated pursuant to subdivision four of this section multi- 27 plied by the full day kindergarten enrollment of children attending EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15801-02-8A. 10683 2 1 programs in the district in the base year. School districts receiving an 2 apportionment pursuant to [paragraph a of this subdivision in the two3thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen or two thousand nineteen--two4thousand twenty school year] this paragraph shall be eligible for (A) an 5 apportionment in the following school year equal to the product of 6 sixty-five percent multiplied by the aid received by the district pursu- 7 ant to paragraph a of this subdivision in the prior school year, and (B) 8 an apportionment in the school year after the following year equal to 9 the product of thirty-five percent multiplied by the aid received by the 10 district pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision in the year preced- 11 ing the prior year. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 13 manner as section 12 of part CCC of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, 14 takes effect.
