Bill Text: NY S06370 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6370 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the apportionment of moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S06370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06370-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6370
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- 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 the  apportionment  of
          moneys  for  capital  outlays  and  debt  service  for school building
          purposes
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section
     2  3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (d) to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (d)  For  aid  payable in the school years two thousand seventeen--two
     5  thousand eighteen and thereafter for school building projects to  remedy
     6  capacity shortages of high-need school districts, as defined pursuant to
     7  regulations  of  the commissioner in clause (c) of this subparagraph and
     8  are located in a county with a population  of  more  than  nine  hundred
     9  forty  thousand  and  less than one million inhabitants according to the
    10  two thousand ten federal census, as  approved  by  the  voters  of  such
    11  school  district or by such board of education of a city school district
    12  in a city with more than one hundred twenty-five  thousand  inhabitants,
    13  on  or after July first, two thousand fifteen, may compute aid under the
    14  provisions of this subdivision using  the  high-need  secondary  supple-
    15  mental  building  aid ratio, which shall be the lesser of: (A) the prod-
    16  uct, computed to three decimals without rounding, of the greater of  the
    17  building  aid ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and (iii)
    18  of clause (b) of this subparagraph multiplied by ten percent; or (B) the
    19  positive remainder of ninety-eight one-hundredths less  the  greater  of
    20  the  building  aid  ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and
    21  (iii) of clause (b)  of  this  subparagraph.  School  building  projects
    22  eligible  for  aid  pursuant  to  this  clause shall include projects to
    23  address capacity shortages of at least ten  percent  of  the  calculated
    24  capacity  of  the  district  or  at  least ten percent of the calculated
    25  capacity of elementary or secondary schools of the district,  as  deter-
    26  mined by the commissioner.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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