Bill Text: NY A11669 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts a chapter amendment making certain technical corrections to the education law relating to contracts for excellence, in relation to gap elimination adjustment offset.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-07-07 - referred to ways and means [A11669 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A11669-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         11669
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     July 7, 2010
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  read  once and referred to the
         Committee on Ways and Means
       AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2010 amending the education law
         and other laws relating to contracts for excellence,  as  proposed  in
         legislative  bill  numbers  S.6607-B  and A.9707-C, in relation to gap
         elimination adjustment offset
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  25-b  of part A of a chapter of the laws of 2010
    2  amending the education law and other  laws  relating  to  contracts  for
    3  excellence,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bill  numbers  S.6607-B  and
    4  A.9707-C, is amended to read as follows:
    5    S 25-b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in
    6  the two  thousand  ten-two  thousand  eleven  school  year,  the  amount
    7  received  by  each  [average-need]  school  district, [as defined by the
    8  commissioner of education,] EXCLUSIVE OF  THOSE  IDENTIFIED  IN  SECTION
    9  TWENTY-FIVE-A  OF THIS ACT, whose budget is subject to voter approval as
   10  a gap elimination adjustment offset, pursuant to a chapter of  the  laws
   11  of  2010  that added paragraph f of subdivision one of section 3609-a of
   12  the education law[, shall be used as follows:
   13    (a) a minimum of 50 percent of such amount shall  be  used  to  reduce
   14  property taxes in the 2011-2011 school year; and
   15    (b)  the  remaining such amount may be deemed a state grant in aid for
   16  general use within the meaning of subdivision two of section 1718 of the
   17  education law and may be used for the purpose of maintaining educational
   18  programming during the 2010-2011 school year which otherwise would  have
   19  been  reduced  as a result of such net gap elimination adjustment] SHALL
   20  APPLY THE AMOUNT OF SAID OFFSET SOLELY TO THE REDUCTION OF THE  DISTRICT
   21  PROPERTY TAX LEVY AND SHALL NOT BE AUTHORIZED TO ADD AN APPROPRIATION OF
   22  SUCH  FUNDS  TO A PROPOSED, ENACTED OR ADOPTED BUDGET OR TO DEPOSIT SUCH
   23  FUNDS IN A RESERVE FUND OR TO RETAIN SUCH FUNDS IN  AN  UNRESERVED  FUND
   24  BALANCE AFTER LEVY OF TAXES.
   25    S 2. 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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