Senate Bill S7996B

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides that school districts, including the city school district of the city of New York, are entitled to an apportionment of state aid for the closure of schools due in response to the novel coronavirus

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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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2019-S7996 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10189
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3604, Ed L

2019-S7996 - Summary

Provides that school districts, including the city school district of the city of New York, are entited to an apportionment of state aid for the closure of schools due in response to the novel coronavirus.

2019-S7996 - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7996 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7996
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 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  attendance  of
   minors  upon  full  day  instruction  and  the  conditions under which
   districts are entitled to  an  apportionment  of  state  aid  and  the
   closure of schools due in response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19,
   even when no state of emergency has been declared
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3604  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  605  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   7. No district shall be entitled to any portion of such school  moneys
 on  such  apportionment  unless  the  report of the trustees or board of
 education for the preceding school  year  shall  show  that  the  public
 schools  were actually in session in the district and taught by a quali-
 fied teacher or by successive qualified teachers or by qualified  teach-
 ers  for  not less than one hundred eighty days. The moneys payable to a
 school district pursuant to section thirty-six hundred  nine-a  of  this
 part  in  the current year shall be reduced by one one-hundred eightieth
 of the district's total foundation aid for the base year  for  each  day
 less  than one hundred eighty days that the schools of the district were
 actually in session, except that the  commissioner  may  disregard  such
 reduction  in the apportionment of public money, (i) for any day or days
 on which session had been previously scheduled  but  the  superintendent
 was  required  to close the school or schools due to a properly executed
 declaration of a state or local state of emergency pursuant  to  article
 two-B  of  the  executive  law  or (ii) for up to five days if he or she
 finds that the schools of the district  were  not  in  session  for  one
 hundred  eighty  days  because of extraordinarily adverse weather condi-
 tions, impairment of heating facilities, insufficiency of water  supply,
 shortage of fuel, lack of electricity, natural gas leakage, unacceptable
 levels  of  chemical  substances, a credible threat to student safety as
 reasonably determined by a lead school official or the destruction of  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

co-Sponsors

2019-S7996A - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10189
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3604, Ed L

2019-S7996A - Summary

Provides that school districts, including the city school district of the city of New York, are entited to an apportionment of state aid for the closure of schools due in response to the novel coronavirus.

2019-S7996A - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7996A - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7996--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. CARLUCCI, MAYER, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Educa-
   tion  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  the  attendance  of
   minors  upon  full  day  instruction  and  the  conditions under which
   districts, including the city school district of the city of New York,
   are entitled to an apportionment of  state  aid  and  the  closure  of
   schools due in response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3604  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  605  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   7. No district shall be entitled to any portion of such school  moneys
 on  such  apportionment  unless  the  report of the trustees or board of
 education for the preceding school  year  shall  show  that  the  public
 schools  were actually in session in the district and taught by a quali-
 fied teacher or by successive qualified teachers or by qualified  teach-
 ers  for  not less than one hundred eighty days. The moneys payable to a
 school district pursuant to section thirty-six hundred  nine-a  of  this
 part  in  the current year shall be reduced by one one-hundred eightieth
 of the district's total foundation aid for the base year  for  each  day
 less  than one hundred eighty days that the schools of the district were
 actually in session, except that the  commissioner  may  disregard  such
 reduction  in  the  apportionment of public money[,]: (i) for any day or
 days on which session had been previously scheduled but the  superinten-
 dent  was  required  to  close  the  school or schools due to a properly
 executed declaration of a state or local state of emergency pursuant  to
 article two-B of the executive law; or (ii) for up to five days if he or
 she  finds  that the schools of the district were not in session for one
 hundred eighty days because of extraordinarily  adverse  weather  condi-
 tions,  impairment of heating facilities, insufficiency of water supply,
 shortage of fuel, lack of electricity, natural gas leakage, unacceptable
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

co-Sponsors

2019-S7996B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10189
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3604, Ed L

2019-S7996B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that school districts, including the city school district of the city of New York, are entited to an apportionment of state aid for the closure of schools due in response to the novel coronavirus.

2019-S7996B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7996B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7996--B
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  CARLUCCI,  MAYER,  GOUNARDES,  HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY,
   KAPLAN, KRUEGER, METZGER, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --  commit-
   tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
   mitted to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the attendance of
   minors upon full  day  instruction  and  the  conditions  under  which
   districts, including the city school district of the city of New York,
   are  entitled  to  an  apportionment  of  state aid and the closure of
   schools due in response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section 3604 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 605 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   7.  No district shall be entitled to any portion of such school moneys
 on such apportionment unless the report of  the  trustees  or  board  of
 education  for  the  preceding  school  year  shall show that the public
 schools were actually in session in the district and taught by a  quali-
 fied  teacher or by successive qualified teachers or by qualified teach-
 ers for not less than one hundred eighty days. The moneys payable  to  a
 school  district  pursuant  to section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this
 part in the current year shall be reduced by one  one-hundred  eightieth
 of  the  district's  total foundation aid for the base year for each day
 less than one hundred eighty days that the schools of the district  were
 actually  in  session,  except  that the commissioner may disregard such
 reduction in the apportionment of public money[,]: (i) for  any  day  or
 days  on which session had been previously scheduled but the superinten-
 dent was required to close the school  or  schools  due  to  a  properly
 executed  declaration of a state or local state of emergency pursuant to
 article two-B of the executive law; or (ii) for up to five days if he or
 she finds that the schools of the district were not in session  for  one
 hundred  eighty  days  because of extraordinarily adverse weather condi-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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