Bill Text: NY S01160 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Restores the tuition freeze for charter schools to the 2009-2010 school year level for the City School District of the city of Albany.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01160 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S01160-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1160 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to charter school tuition THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of 2 section 2856 of the education law, as added by section 21 of part A of 3 chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4 (iii) for the two thousand ten--two thousand eleven through [two thou- 5 sand twelve--two thousand thirteen] TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND 6 TWELVE school years, the charter school basic tuition shall be the basic 7 tuition computed for the two thousand ten--two thousand eleven school 8 year pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph; 9 (IV) FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE--TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR, 10 THE CHARTER SCHOOL BASIC TUITION SHALL BE THE BASIC TUITION COMPUTED FOR 11 THE TWO THOUSAND TEN--TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN SCHOOL YEAR PURSUANT TO THE 12 PROVISIONS OF SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, 13 THAT FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT ENROLLMENT FOR 14 THE BASE YEAR, CALCULATED PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH TWO OF PARAGRAPH N OF 15 SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, IN 16 EXCESS OF FIVE THOUSAND PUPILS, WHERE THE QUOTIENT OF THE BASE YEAR 17 RESIDENT PUPILS ENROLLED IN CHARTER SCHOOLS OTHER THAN CHARTER SCHOOLS 18 CONVERTED FROM AN EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOL AND FORMED BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT 19 AS A CHARTER ENTITY PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF 20 SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE, DIVIDED BY THE 21 PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT ENROLLMENT FOR THE BASE YEAR, CALCULATED PURSUANT 22 TO SUBPARAGRAPH TWO OF PARAGRAPH N OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIR- 23 TY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER IS TWENTY PERCENT OR MORE, BASED ON 24 DATA ON FILE WITH THE COMMISSIONER AND IN THE DATABASE USED BY THE 25 COMMISSIONER TO PRODUCE AN UPDATED ELECTRONIC DATA FILE ON FEBRUARY EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01963-01-3 S. 1160 2 1 FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH B OF SUBDIVISION 2 TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, THE CHARTER 3 SCHOOL BASIC TUITION SHALL BE THE BASIC TUITION COMPUTED FOR THE TWO 4 THOUSAND NINE--TWO THOUSAND TEN SCHOOL YEAR PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS 5 OF SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF THIS PARAGRAPH. 6 S 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 7 2856 of the education law, as amended by section 22 of part A of chapter 8 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 9 (iii) for the two thousand ten--two thousand eleven through [two thou- 10 sand twelve--two thousand thirteen] TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND 11 TWELVE school years, the charter school basic tuition shall be the basic 12 tuition computed for the two thousand ten--two thousand eleven school 13 year pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph; 14 (IV) FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE--TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR, 15 THE CHARTER SCHOOL BASIC TUITION SHALL BE THE BASIC TUITION COMPUTED FOR 16 THE TWO THOUSAND TEN--TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN SCHOOL YEAR PURSUANT TO THE 17 PROVISIONS OF SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, 18 THAT FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT ENROLLMENT FOR 19 THE BASE YEAR, CALCULATED PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH TWO OF PARAGRAPH N OF 20 SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, IN 21 EXCESS OF FIVE THOUSAND PUPILS, WHERE THE QUOTIENT OF THE BASE YEAR 22 RESIDENT PUPILS ENROLLED IN CHARTER SCHOOLS OTHER THAN CHARTER SCHOOLS 23 CONVERTED FROM AN EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOL AND FORMED BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT 24 AS A CHARTER ENTITY PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF 25 SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE, DIVIDED BY THE 26 PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT ENROLLMENT FOR THE BASE YEAR, CALCULATED PURSUANT 27 TO SUBPARAGRAPH TWO OF PARAGRAPH N OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIR- 28 TY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER IS TWENTY PERCENT OR MORE, BASED ON 29 DATA ON FILE WITH THE COMMISSIONER AND IN THE DATABASE USED BY THE 30 COMMISSIONER TO PRODUCE AN UPDATED ELECTRONIC DATA FILE ON FEBRUARY 31 FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH B OF SUBDIVISION 32 TWENTY-ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, THE CHARTER 33 SCHOOL BASIC TUITION SHALL BE THE BASIC TUITION COMPUTED FOR THE TWO 34 THOUSAND NINE--TWO THOUSAND TEN SCHOOL YEAR PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS 35 OF SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF THIS PARAGRAPH. 36 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 37 ments to subdivision 1 of section 2856 of the education law made by 38 section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of such subdivi- 39 sion as provided in chapter 378 of the laws of 2007, as amended, when 40 upon such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take 41 effect.