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Jan 09, 2015 |
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Senate Bill S1187
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S1187 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S1187 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1187 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to the calculation of the "pupil wealth ratio" for school aid purposes PURPOSE: This bill would amend tie calculation of the combined wealth ratio to take into account certain characteristics of unique school districts. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1. Amends paragraphs a and b of subdivision 3 of section 3602 of the education law as it relates to amending the calculation of the combined wealth ratio. Certain districts that have more than twice as many non-public students than public students and have at least one thousand public students will add twenty five percent of the non-public students with the total wealth pupil units when calculating the combined wealth ratio. Section 2. Effective date. JUSTIFICATION: The combined wealth ratio measures the wealth of a school district using factors of income and home values within the district. These measures are divided by the public students in the district and compared to statewide averages. In certain districts that have large non-public student populations, the combined wealth ratio
2015-S1187 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1187 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 9, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 calculation of the "pupil wealth ratio" for school aid purposes THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 3 of section 3602 of the education law, as amended by section 13 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, are amended to read as follows: a. (1) "Pupil wealth ratio" shall mean the number computed to three decimals without rounding obtained when actual valuation of a school district divided by, WHEN APPLICABLE, the SUM OF THE total wealth pupil units AND, IF THE DISTRICT'S NUMBER OF RESIDENT STUDENTS ENROLLED IN NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL IS MORE THAN TWICE THE NUMBER OF RESIDENT STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PUBLIC SCHOOL AND IF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IS OVER ONE THOUSAND, TWENTY-FIVE PER CENTUM OF THE RESIDENT STUDENTS ENROLLED IN NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT, is divided by the statewide aver- age actual valuation per total wealth pupil unit as computed by the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such statewide average actual valuation per total wealth pupil unit shall be established each year by the commissioner using the latest single year actual valuation computed under paragraph c of subdivision one of this section. Such statewide average shall be transmitted to the school districts. Such statewide average shall be rounded to the nearest hundredth and shall include the actual valuation and total wealth pupil units of all school districts eligible for aid pursuant to this section except central high school districts. For the purposes of calculating such statewide average the data for the city school district of the city of New York shall be citywide data. (2) "Pupil wealth ratio for total foundation aid" shall mean the number computed to three decimals without rounding obtained when the selected actual valuation of a school district divided by, WHEN APPLICA- BLE, the SUM OF THE total wealth pupil units AND, IF THE DISTRICT'S NUMBER OF RESIDENT STUDENTS ENROLLED IN NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL IS MORE THAN
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