Bill Text: NY S06273 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides state aid for certain special education services for children with autism spectrum disorder in preschool.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-29 - PRINT NUMBER 6273A [S06273 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06273-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6273--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education  --  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  approved  costs  of
          providing  special  education  services  to children with handicapping
          conditions in preschool
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  10  of  section 4410 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
     3    f. Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,
     4  commencing  with  the  two  thousand  eleven--two thousand twelve school
     5  year, costs of certain property and non-direct care service costs  asso-
     6  ciated with identified space directly related to special education itin-
     7  erant  services and used for instructional purposes in accordance with a
     8  student's individualized education program shall be deemed  reimbursable
     9  within  the  calculation of tuition rates for approved programs pursuant
    10  to the approved tuition methodology  in  effect  for  the  corresponding
    11  year.  Such costs shall include those associated with discrete, specific
    12  space  located outside of the classroom but within the proximity of such
    13  classroom where the special education itinerant  services  are  provided
    14  and  shall  include  mortgage  interest,  depreciation, rent, utilities,
    15  storage, housekeeping and supplies, and non-direct care costs associated
    16  with maintenance.  All such costs shall be required to meet the applica-
    17  ble criteria for reimbursement as specified by the commissioner's  regu-
    18  lations  and  the  department's  tuition  reimbursement  guidelines  and
    19  requirements.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
    21  have been in full force and effect on and after July 1, 2011.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11706-03-7
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