Bill Text: NY S07938 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to disregard any reduction in aid to Fallsburg central school district due to only 179 days of attendance in the 2016-2017 school year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-07 - referred to ways and means [S07938 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07938-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7938
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 12, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to disre-
          gard any reduction in aid to Fallsburg central school district due  to
          attendance
          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  Fallsburg  central  school  district  were  only  in  attendance for one
     3  hundred seventy-nine days in the 2016--2017 school year, the commission-
     4  er of education is authorized and directed to disregard the reduction of
     5  state aid required pursuant to section 3604 of  the  education  law  and
     6  shall  pay  such  school  district its apportionment as if the Fallsburg
     7  central school district had been in session for the required one hundred
     8  eighty days.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13593-02-8
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