Bill Text: NY S08014 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 8014 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Provides that certain schools shall experience no financial harm for reduced enrollment or inability to operate for the full 180 session days due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-23 - approval memo.61 [S08014 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08014-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8014--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 in relation to providing that certain schools to receive tuition
          payments from the state for  any  period  of  time  such  schools  are
          required  to  close in response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease
          2019 (COVID-19)

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of articles 81, 85 and 89 of
     2  the  education  law,  8 NYCRR 175.6(b)(4) or any other provision of law,
     3  rule or regulation to the contrary, any school created pursuant to chap-
     4  ter 853 of the laws of 1976 and commonly referred to as an  853  school,
     5  any institution set forth in section 4201 of the education law providing
     6  instruction for the deaf or the blind and any provider of special educa-
     7  tion services or programs pursuant to section  4410 of the education law
     8  shall continue to receive tuition payments from the state for any period
     9  of  time  such schools are required to close in response to the outbreak
    10  of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15794-02-0