Senate Bill S7938

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to disregard any reduction in aid to Fallsburg central school district due to attendance

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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-S7938 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10290
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education

2017-S7938 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2017-S7938 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7938 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7938
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              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:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding the fact  that  the  pupils  attending  the
 Fallsburg  central  school  district  were  only  in  attendance for one
 hundred seventy-nine days in the 2016--2017 school year, the commission-
 er of education is authorized and directed to disregard the reduction of
 state aid required pursuant to section 3604 of  the  education  law  and
 shall  pay  such  school  district its apportionment as if the Fallsburg
 central school district had been in session for the required one hundred
 eighty days.
   § 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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