Bill Text: NY S03460 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects; defines an eligible school construction project as one that is entirely funded from capital outlays and has a total project cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-08 - PRINT NUMBER 3460A [S03460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03460-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3460--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. GAUGHRAN, COMRIE, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered
          printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa-
          tion -- recommitted 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 additional  appor-
          tionment of building aid for certain projects

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 6-f of section
     2  3602 of the education law, as added by section 19 of part H  of  chapter
     3  83 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  has a total project cost of [one hundred] two hundred fifty thou-
     5  sand dollars or less[; provided however, that for any district, no  more
     6  than  one project shall be eligible pursuant to this subparagraph for an
     7  apportionment within the same school year] modified by an annual  county
     8  or  multi-county  labor  market  composite wage rate, established by the
     9  commissioner of labor in consultation with the  commissioner,  for  July
    10  first  of  the  base  year, indexed   to the median  of such  county  or
    11  multi-county rates, but not less than one,  up  to  a  maximum  of  five
    12  hundred  thousand  dollars,  as  determined by the building aid regional
    13  cost factor; and provided further a school district may  combine  up  to
    14  five years of project allowances pursuant to this subparagraph and apply
    15  to  the  commissioner  for project approval for the entire apportionment
    16  and such apportionment may be used for one or more projects; and/or
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05708-03-2
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