Bill Text: NY S00564 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of aid for high cost students with disabilities; provides financial support in the first year when a new high cost student with a disability moves into a school district during the school year with an individualized education program.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-24 - PRINT NUMBER 564A [S00564 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00564-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         564--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sens. YOUNG, DILAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education  --  recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec.  8  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  the  distribution  of
          aid for high cost students with disabilities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3609-b of the education law is amended by adding  a
     2  new third undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
     3    For  aid  payable  in the two thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen
     4  school year and thereafter, "moneys apportioned" shall mean current year
     5  aid provided for current year expenses for new high cost  students  with
     6  disabilities  that move into the district during the school year with an
     7  individualized education program from a committee on  special  education
     8  of another school district.
     9    §  2.  Paragraph  c  of subdivision 3 of section 4405 of the education
    10  law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
    11  follows:
    12    c. The apportionments to each school district pursuant to this  subdi-
    13  vision shall be based on excess cost paid and attendance during the base
    14  year  except, beginning in the two thousand eighteen--two thousand nine-
    15  teen school year and thereafter, "moneys apportioned" shall be based  on
    16  excess cost paid and attendance during the current year for new students
    17  with  disabilities  that  move  into the district during the school year
    18  with an individualized education program from  a  committee  on  special
    19  education  of  another  school district requiring attendance at approved
    20  private special education programs.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    22  the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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