Senate Bill S2547

2021-2022 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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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education 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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2021-S2547 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate 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: S1427
2017-2018: S160
2019-2020: S471
2023-2024: S3453

2021-S2547 (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.

2021-S2547 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2547
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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  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.
                                                            LBD07233-01-1

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