Assembly Bill A3493A

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to apportioning funds to the Yonkers city school district for services and expenses

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Current Bill Status Via S9823 - Signed by Governor


  • 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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2023-A3493 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9823
Law Section:
Education Law
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10434
2011-2012: A2248, A9005
2013-2014: A4241
2015-2016: A1698
2017-2018: A2644
2019-2020: A1909
2021-2022: A3943

2023-A3493 - Summary

Provides that the Yonkers city school district shall be eligible to receive an apportionment of funds to be used for services and expenses; directs certain reports to be submitted.

2023-A3493 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3493
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing the  Yonkers
   city  school  district with additional supplemental education improve-
   ment plan funds
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of  the  laws
 of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  To  the Yonkers city school district there shall be paid seventeen
 million five hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) on an  annual  basis
 PLUS  AN  AMOUNT  EQUIVALENT TO THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE, CARRIED TO FOUR
 DECIMALS, IN THE YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC ENROLLMENT PURSUANT
 TO FOUNDATION AID UNDER SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION  THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED
 TWO  OF  THIS ARTICLE FROM THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 ONE SCHOOL YEAR TO THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE--TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-TWO
 SCHOOL  YEAR  MULTIPLIED  BY  THE DISTRICT'S FOUNDATION AID AMOUNT. SUCH
 INCREASE SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED  ELEVEN-D  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER.    Such grant shall be payable from funds appropriated for such
 purpose and shall be apportioned to the Yonkers city school district  in
 accordance  with  the  payment schedules contained in section thirty-six
 hundred nine-a of this article, notwithstanding any provision of law  to
 the contrary.
   § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08314-01-3



              

2023-A3493A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9823
Law Section:
Education Law
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10434
2011-2012: A2248, A9005
2013-2014: A4241
2015-2016: A1698
2017-2018: A2644
2019-2020: A1909
2021-2022: A3943

2023-A3493A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the Yonkers city school district shall be eligible to receive an apportionment of funds to be used for services and expenses; directs certain reports to be submitted.

2023-A3493A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3493--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Education  in
   accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee

 AN  ACT  in  relation  to  apportioning funds to the Yonkers city school
   district for services and expenses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The Yonkers city school district shall be paid on an accel-
 erated schedule as follows:
   (a)  (1)  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, for aid payable
 in the school years 2024-2025 through 2053-2054 upon application to  the
 commissioner of education submitted not sooner than the second Monday in
 May  of  the school year in which such aid is payable and not later than
 the Friday following the third Monday in May of the school year in which
 such aid is payable, or ten days after the effective date of  this  act,
 whichever  shall  be  later,  the  Yonkers city school district shall be
 eligible to receive an apportionment pursuant to this act in  an  amount
 equal  to  the  product  of  five  million  dollars ($5,000,000) and the
 quotient of the positive difference of thirty minus the number of school
 years elapsed since the 2024-2025 school year divided by thirty.
   (2) Funds apportioned pursuant to this subdivision shall be  used  for
 services  and  expenses of the Yonkers city school district and shall be
 applied to  support  of  its  educational  programs  and  any  liability
 incurred  by such city school district in carrying out its functions and
 responsibilities under the education law.
   (b) The claim for an apportionment to be  paid  to  the  Yonkers  city
 school  district  pursuant  to  subdivision (a) of this section shall be
 submitted to the commissioner of education on a form prescribed for such
 purpose and shall be payable upon  determination  by  such  commissioner
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08314-02-4
              

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