Bill Text: NY S05781 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5781 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to pay the Uniondale union free school district the full amount of state reimbursement to such district, notwithstanding the failure of the California Avenue school in such school district to be in session 180 days during the 2012 - 2013 school year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-21 - SIGNED CHAP.419 [S05781 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S05781-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5781
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 14, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to direct the commissioner of  education  to  pay  the  Uniondale
         union  free  school district its full state aid apportionment notwith-
         standing the failure of the California Avenue school to be in  session
         180 days during the 2012--2013 school year
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Notwithstanding the fact  that  the  pupils  attending  the
    2  California  Avenue  school  of  the Uniondale union free school district
    3  were only in  attendance  for  one  hundred  seventy-nine  days  in  the
    4  2012--2013  school  year,  due  to no fault of such school district, the
    5  commissioner of education is authorized to disregard  the  reduction  of
    6  state  aid  required  pursuant  to section 3604 of the education law and
    7  shall pay such school district its apportionment as  if  the  California
    8  Avenue  school  had  been in session for the required one hundred eighty
    9  days.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11423-02-3