Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jan 04, 2012 |
referred to education returned to senate died in assembly |
Jun 15, 2011 |
referred to education delivered to assembly passed senate |
Jun 14, 2011 |
advanced to third reading |
Jun 13, 2011 |
2nd report cal. |
Jun 07, 2011 |
1st report cal.1110 |
May 24, 2011 |
reported and committed to finance |
May 16, 2011 |
referred to education |
Senate Bill S5390
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
2011-S5390 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A7803
- Current Committee:
- Senate Education
- Law Section:
- Education
2011-S5390 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S5390 TITLE OF BILL: An act to provide for the repayment by the Schenectady city school district of certain excess state payments PURPOSE: To allow the Schenectady City School District to spread out repayment of excess state aid over three years. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill provides that excess aid paid to the Schenectady City School District in the 2003-04 through 2008-09 school years, of which the District has been notified and for which the State must make a recovery through deductions of future aid payments, shall be recovered by reducing the amount of future State aid payments by one-third of the amount of such excess payments in the aid payments for June of 2011, 2012 and 2013. JUSTIFICATION: In 2008, the State Education Department identified an error in a legal notice published several years earlier by the Schenectady City School District in relation to certain transportation services for the 2003-04 school year. Because of this error, the Department indicated that the expected state transportation aid could not be paid for
2011-S5390 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5390 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 16, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to provide for the repayment by the Schenectady city school district of certain excess state payments THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, state aid payments in the amount of not more than three million eight hundred sixty thousand four hundred sixty-six dollars ($3,860,466) made to the Schenectady city school district in the 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006- 07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years, which included excess payments of which such district has been notified, and for which a recovery must be made by the state through deduction of future aid payments, shall be reduced through aid deductions totaling such excess payments, by deduct- ing one-third of such excess payments from the payments due to such school district and payable in the month of June in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; provided, however, there shall be no interest penalty assessed against such district or collected by the state; and provided, further, that notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, any pending payment of moneys due to such district as a prior year adjustment paya- ble pursuant to paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the education law for aid claims that had been previously paid in excess as current year aid payments for which recovery of excess payments is to be made pursuant to this section, shall be reduced at the time of actual payment by any remaining unrecovered balance of such excess payments, and the remaining scheduled deductions of such excess payments pursuant to this section shall be reduced by the commissioner of education to reflect the amount so recovered. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11487-02-1
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