Bill Text: NY S07344 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Validates certain acts of the Islip Union Free school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects including project numbers 0003-12, 0011-007, 0011-008, 0003-013, 0007-009, 0007-010, 0007-012 & 0011-009.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-09-29 - VETOED MEMO.220 [S07344 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07344-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7344--A
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 20, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT to validate certain acts of the Islip Union Free school district
          with regard to certain capital improvement projects
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that the
     2  Islip Union Free school  district  approved  eight  capital  improvement
     3  projects  which  are  designated  as  project numbers 0003-12, 0011-007,
     4  0011-008, 0003-013, 0007-009, 0007-010,  0007-012,  and  0011-009.    In
     5  addition, the projects were eligible for certain state aid. The legisla-
     6  ture further finds that due to ministerial error, the required filing of
     7  the  final cost reports for such projects were not made by such district
     8  in a timely manner making the district ineligible for certain  aid.  The
     9  legislature further finds that without such aid, the capital improvement
    10  projects  will  impose an additional, unanticipated hardship on district
    11  taxpayers.
    12    § 2. All the acts done and proceedings heretofore  had  and  taken  or
    13  caused to be had or taken by the Islip Union Free school district and by
    14  all  its  officers or agents relating to or in connection with a certain
    15  final cost report to be filed with the state  education  department  for
    16  project   numbers   0003-12,  0011-007,  0011-008,  0003-013,  0007-009,
    17  0007-010, 0007-012, and 0011-009, and all acts  incidental  thereto  are
    18  hereby legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any
    19  failure  to comply with the approval and filing provisions of the educa-
    20  tion law or any other law or any  other  statutory  authority,  rule  or
    21  regulation, in relation to any omissions, error, defect, irregularity or
    22  illegality  in such proceedings had and taken, and provided further that
    23  any amount due and payable to the Islip Union Free school  district  for
    24  school  years prior to the 2015-2016 school year as a result of this act
    25  shall be paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph c of subdivision 5
    26  of section 3604 of the education law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 3. The education department  is  hereby  directed  to  consider  the
     2  approved  costs of the aforementioned projects as valid and proper obli-
     3  gations of the Islip Union Free school district.
     4    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.