Assembly Bill A1996

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to apportionment for charter school tuition payments

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A1996 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10308
2021-2022: A4510
2023-2024: A4188

2025-A1996 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for apportionment for charter school tuition payments for any school district that is required to pay tuition to charter schools in the two thousand twenty-five-two thousand twenty-six school year and thereafter.

2025-A1996 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1996
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  apportionment  for
   charter school tuition payments
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 3602 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 42 to read as follows:
   42.  AID FOR CHARTER TUITION PAYMENTS. (A) ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT IS
 REQUIRED TO PAY TUITION TO CHARTER SCHOOLS PURSUANT TO  SECTION  TWENTY-
 EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX OF THIS CHAPTER IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE-
 -TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-SIX  SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER SHALL BE ELIGIBLE
 FOR AN APPORTIONMENT UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION.
   (B) EACH SCHOOL YEAR, ANY SUCH ELIGIBLE SCHOOL DISTRICT  SHALL  SUBMIT
 THE  TOTAL  AMOUNT OF CHARTER SCHOOL TUITION PAID BY THE DISTRICT IN THE
 BASE YEAR ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   (C) THE APPORTIONMENT FOR CHARTER  SCHOOL  PAYMENTS  SHALL  EQUAL  THE
 POSITIVE  DIFFERENCE,  IF ANY, OF THE AMOUNT OF TUITION PAID IN THE BASE
 YEAR LESS THE AMOUNT OF TUITION PAID IN THE TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-FIVE--
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX SCHOOL YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03153-01-5

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