Senate Bill S972

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for accelerated payments to the city school district of the city of Mount Vernon

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Current 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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2023-S972 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Mount Vernon, City of
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5261
2011-2012: S3815
2013-2014: S3370
2015-2016: S2343
2017-2018: S3803
2019-2020: S2562
2021-2022: S3353

2023-S972 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for accelerated payments to the city school district of the city of Mount Vernon.

2023-S972 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S972 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    972
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT providing for accelerated payments to the city school district of
   the city of Mount Vernon
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  In order to avoid endangering the fiscal stability of the
 Mount Vernon city school district, certain apportionments payable to the
 city school district of the city of Mount Vernon shall  be  paid  on  an
 accelerated schedule as follows:
   a. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, for aid payable in
 the  school  years  2023-2024  through 2050-2051 upon application to the
 commissioner of education submitted not sooner than the second Monday in
 June of the school year in which such aid is payable and not later  than
 the  Friday  following  the  third  Monday in June 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 Mount Vernon 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 2023-2024 school year divided by thirty.
   (2) Funds apportioned pursuant to this subdivision shall be  used  for
 services  and  expenses of the city school district of the city of Mount
 Vernon 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 Mount Vernon  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
 that  the  form  has  been  submitted  as prescribed and that the school
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03331-01-3
              

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