NY State Senate Bill 2021-S807

Senate Bill S807

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the apportionment of moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes

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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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2021-S807 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2517
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S6370, A6882
2019-2020: S2973, A7108
2023-2024: S4437, A96

2021-S807 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the apportionment of moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes.

2021-S807 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S807

SPONSOR: BIAGGI
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the apportionment of
moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation will amend the education law to allow certain high need
districts to receive an additional supplemental building aid ratio for
projects addressing capacity shortages.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section 3602
of education law is amended by adding a new clause (d) which will allow
that for school years 2017-18 and thereafter, school building projects
designed to address capacity shortages of high-need school districts, as
defined pursuant to regulations of the commissioner in clause (c) of

this subparagraph and are in a designated county.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

More than 10 years ago, New York State recognized that high need school
districts were struggling to support necessary school capital projects
and permitted these districts to access an additional Building Aid
reimbursement. Since such time, high need school districts in Westches-
ter County have been confronted with both escalating local construction
costs and significant student enrollment growth contributing to their
limited ability to address capacity shortages for their current and
future projections of increased student enrollment. This bill recognizes
the pressing need for these districts to expand classroom space by help-
ing to offset the local fiscal impact of facility projects designed to
relieve overcrowding where the shortages are ten percent or greater of
the identified need as determined by the. State Education Department.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-2020: S2973/A7108 - Died in Education
2017-2018: S6370 - Died in Education

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

This will reduce costs for local school districts and the cost to the
State is to be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S807 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    807
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BIAGGI -- 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  apportionment  of
   moneys  for  capital  outlays  and  debt  service  for school building
   purposes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section
 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (d) to  read
 as follows:
   (D)  FOR  AID PAYABLE IN THE SCHOOL YEARS TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE--TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO AND THEREAFTER FOR SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECTS TO REME-
 DY CAPACITY SHORTAGES OF HIGH-NEED SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AS DEFINED PURSUANT
 TO REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER IN CLAUSE (C)  OF  THIS  SUBPARAGRAPH
 AND  ARE LOCATED IN A COUNTY WITH A POPULATION OF MORE THAN NINE HUNDRED
 FORTY THOUSAND AND LESS THAN ONE MILLION INHABITANTS  ACCORDING  TO  THE
 TWO  THOUSAND  TEN  FEDERAL  CENSUS,  AS  APPROVED BY THE VOTERS OF SUCH
 SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BY SUCH BOARD OF EDUCATION OF A CITY SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 IN  A  CITY WITH MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND INHABITANTS,
 ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN, MAY COMPUTE AID UNDER THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION USING  THE  HIGH-NEED  SECONDARY  SUPPLE-
 MENTAL  BUILDING  AID RATIO, WHICH SHALL BE THE LESSER OF: (A) THE PROD-
 UCT, COMPUTED TO THREE DECIMALS WITHOUT ROUNDING, OF THE GREATER OF  THE
 BUILDING  AID RATIOS COMPUTED PURSUANT TO SUBCLAUSES (I), (II) AND (III)
 OF CLAUSE (B) OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH MULTIPLIED BY TEN PERCENT; OR (B) THE
 POSITIVE REMAINDER OF NINETY-EIGHT ONE-HUNDREDTHS LESS  THE  GREATER  OF
 THE  BUILDING  AID  RATIOS COMPUTED PURSUANT TO SUBCLAUSES (I), (II) AND
 (III) OF CLAUSE (B)  OF  THIS  SUBPARAGRAPH.  SCHOOL  BUILDING  PROJECTS
 ELIGIBLE  FOR  AID  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  CLAUSE SHALL INCLUDE PROJECTS TO
 ADDRESS CAPACITY SHORTAGES OF AT LEAST TEN  PERCENT  OF  THE  CALCULATED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02569-01-1

 S. 807                              2
 
 CAPACITY  OF  THE  DISTRICT  OR  AT  LEAST TEN PERCENT OF THE CALCULATED
 CAPACITY OF ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT,  AS  DETER-
 MINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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