Bill Text: NY S05541 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5541 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city school district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S05541 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05541-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5541
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 6, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- 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  supplemental  educa-
          tional improvement plan grants
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws
     3  of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b. To the Yonkers city school district there shall be  paid  seventeen
     5  million  five  hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) multiplied by such
     6  district's regional cost index, pursuant to subparagraph  two  of  para-
     7  graph  a  of  subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two of this
     8  article, on an annual basis.   Such grant shall be  payable  from  funds
     9  appropriated  for  such  purpose and shall be apportioned to the Yonkers
    10  city school district in accordance with the payment schedules  contained
    11  in  section  thirty-six  hundred nine-a of this article, notwithstanding
    12  any provision of law to the contrary.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04853-01-9