§ 3610. Apportionment for apprenticeship training. 1. Apprenticeship
training programs. Local education agencies which provide related or
supplemental instruction to apprentices registered by the state
department of labor pursuant to article twenty-three of the labor law
shall be eligible for an apportionment pursuant to the provisions of
this section for the operation of apprenticeship training programs as
approved by the commissioner. Priority shall be given to local education
agencies which provide for an increased number of participants in the
related or supplemental instructional component of apprentice training
programs. Designated local education agencies may provide such programs
directly, or by contracting with school districts, boards of cooperative
educational services and other providers of apprentice training
services, including postsecondary institutions and other providers
authorized to confer degrees in this state or in which the course of
instruction is licensed, registered or approved pursuant to any
provision of this chapter.

2. Apprenticeship training hours. For the purpose of computing an
apportionment under this section, apprenticeship training hours shall be
the total number of hours of related or supplemental instruction given
all apprentices in approved apprenticeship training programs in the area
served by the designated local education agency between July first and
June thirtieth of the base year as reported to the commissioner by
September first of the current year.

3. Maximum apportionment per hour. For aid payable for school year
nineteen hundred eighty-nine--ninety the maximum apportionment per
apprenticeship training hour shall be computed by dividing the state
appropriation for related and supplemental instruction for apprentices
by the total number of apprenticeship training hours of all designated
local education agencies in the state, computed in accordance with the
regulations of the commissioner. For aid payable for school year
nineteen hundred ninety--ninety-one and thereafter, this apportionment
shall be at the rate of one dollar per training hour.

4. Apprenticeship training program apportionment. The apportionment
pursuant to this section shall be the product obtained when the
apportionment per hour is multiplied by the number of apprenticeship
training hours of the designated local education agency. Notwithstanding
the provisions of section thirty-six hundred nine of this article,
payment of such apportionment shall be made by November first of the
current year.

5. State aid. No designated local education agency may receive under
the provisions of this section an amount which when added to all other
state aid received by such designated local education agency for the
purpose of this section, exceeds one-half the cost of such program in
that year. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if the
total aid received exceeds one-half the cost of the program, any state
aid payable to the designated local education agency shall be reduced in
the amount of such excess.

6. Apprentices. Apprentices in apprenticeship training programs shall
not be included in any attendance count of this article and shall not
generate aid under any other provisions of this chapter.

7. Apportionment for administrative costs. In addition to the
apportionment under subdivision four of this section, any designated
local education agency which has reported by September first the
processing of more than one hundred fifty apprentices shall receive an
amount equal to three dollars per apprentice served.

8. Regulations. The commissioner may adopt regulations to implement
any of the provisions of this section.