Assembly Bill A5940

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Removes cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for city school district for the city of New York

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A5940 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S160
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §316, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S6387
2013-2014: S1041
2015-2016: A7365, S1427
2019-2020: A1825, S471
2021-2022: A5554, S2547
2023-2024: S3453

2017-A5940 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for the city school district for the city of New York.

2017-A5940 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5940
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to funds for teacher
   resource and computer training centers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  8  of  section  316 of the education law, as
 amended by section 4-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of  2007,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   8.  Funds  provided each school year to school districts and boards of
 cooperative educational services by the commissioner to plan,  establish
 and  operate  teacher  resource  and computer training centers shall not
 exceed two million dollars per center, except that for the  city  school
 district for the city of New York such [center] FUNDING LIMITATION shall
 not  [exceed  sixteen million eight hundred thousand dollars] APPLY; and
 provided further that each approved center shall receive not  less  than
 twenty  thousand  dollars.  In  any  year  in which there is a statewide
 increase in funding for teacher resource and computer training  centers,
 such  increase  shall  be  distributed  proportionately  among  existing
 centers that have satisfactorily  fulfilled  the  requirements  of  such
 centers'  current  grant. A portion of the increase shall be made avail-
 able to new applicants to establish new teacher centers, and to  current
 teacher  centers to develop and implement regional and statewide teacher
 center activities.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02110-01-7

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