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                                    823
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, ZEBROWSKI, THIELE, STECK, SIMON, SANTA-
   BARBARA, PRETLOW, LUPARDO, GALEF,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  ABINANTI,  MONTESANO,
   McDONOUGH,  DICKENS,  GOTTFRIED,  MAGNARELLI,  SOLAGES,  COOK, TAYLOR,
   VANEL, HYNDMAN,  COLTON,  WEPRIN,  DE LA ROSA,  JONES,  BARRON,  FAHY,
   LAVINE,  WOERNER,  JEAN-PIERRE, J. RIVERA, RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the universal full-day
   pre-kindergarten program; and  to  repeal  subdivision  4  of  section
   3602-ee of such law relating thereto
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3602-ee of the  education  law  is
 REPEALED.
   §  2. Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 3602-ee of the education law, as
 added by section 1 of part CC of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2014,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  purpose of the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program is
 to incentivize and  fund  state-of-the-art  innovative  pre-kindergarten
 programs [and to encourage program creativity through competition].
   5.  The  department shall develop a scoring system, which it shall use
 to evaluate which applications shall be funded [on a competitive  basis]
 based  on  merit  and  factors including but not limited to the criteria
 listed above and student and community need. [Upon  review  of  applica-
 tions,  if the program is oversubscribed in any region or regions of the
 state, the department shall notify the division  of  the  budget,  which
 shall  develop  a  plan  for  distribution of available slots within any
 oversubscribed region.] The subscription for the New York city region is
 three hundred million dollars. THE SUBSCRIPTION FOR EACH REGION  OF  THE
 STATE  OTHER  THAN THE NEW YORK CITY REGION SHALL BE IN AN AMOUNT SUFFI-
 CIENT TO PROVIDE SLOTS FOR ALL QUALIFYING PROGRAMS. The department shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01850-01-1

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 allocate full-day pre-kindergarten conversion  slots  and  new  full-day
 pre-kindergarten  slots  based  on  available  funding  and  shall  make
 payments upon documentation of eligible expenditures in the  base  year,
 which  shall  be limited to the actual number of slots operated and paid
 on a per-pupil basis pursuant to subdivision fourteen of this section.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.