Bill Text: NY S06516 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Creates the calculation by which to determine yearly tuition and regional rate reimbursement for approved school-age and preschool special education programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Vetoed) 2021-12-29 - VETOED MEMO.82 [S06516 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06516-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6516--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 4, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MANNION, REICHLIN-MELNICK -- (at request of the State Education Department) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing an annual growth amount for tuition and regional rate reimbursement for approved school-age and preschool special education programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 c. The director of the budget, in consultation with the commissioner 5 [of education], the commissioner of social services, and any other state 6 agency or other source the director may deem appropriate, shall approve 7 reimbursement methodologies for tuition and for maintenance. Any modifi- 8 cation in the approved reimbursement methodologies shall be subject to 9 the approval of the director of the budget. [Notwithstanding any other10provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, tuition rates11established for the nineteen hundred ninety-five--ninety-six school year12shall exclude the two percent cost of living adjustment authorized in13rates established for the nineteen hundred ninety-four--ninety-five14school year.] Tuition and/or regional rates approved for the two thou- 15 sand twenty-one--two thousand twenty-two school year and thereafter for 16 special services or programs provided to school-age students by approved 17 private residential or non-residential schools for the education of 18 students with disabilities that are located within the state, by special 19 act school districts, and by July and August programs for students with 20 disabilities approved pursuant to section forty-four hundred eight of 21 this article, and for special services or programs provided to preschool EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08508-03-1S. 6516--A 2 1 students by programs serving preschool students with disabilities 2 approved pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of this article 3 including, but not limited to, special class and special class in an 4 integrated setting programs, multi-disciplinary evaluation programs, 5 special education itinerant services, and preschool transportation 6 services for which tuition and/or regional rates are determined, shall 7 grow by a percentage equal to the greater of: (i) the difference of the 8 quotient arrived at when dividing the statewide apportionments for 9 general support for public schools, as defined in subdivision one of 10 section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this chapter, for the current year 11 by such apportionments for the base year, as such terms are defined in 12 subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter, as 13 computed based on an electronic data file used to produce the school aid 14 computer listing produced by the commissioner in support of the enacted 15 budget for the current year, less one; or (ii) zero. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.