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Assembly Bill A9767

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides an annual growth amount for the tuition reimbursement for school age programs operated by in-state approved private schools for students with disabilities and special act school districts

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2013-A9767 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7638
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง4405, Ed L

2013-A9767 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides an annual growth amount for the tuition reimbursement for school age programs operated by in-state approved private schools for the education of students with disabilities and special act school districts.

2013-A9767 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9767

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 21, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. NOLAN, MAYER -- (at request of the State Educa-
  tion Department) -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Educa-
  tion

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to providing an annual
  growth amount for the tuition reimbursement for  school  age  programs
  operated  by  in-state  approved  private schools for the education of
  students with disabilities and special act school districts

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the educa-
tion law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995,  is  amended  to
read as follows:
  c.  The  director of the budget, in consultation with the commissioner
of education, the commissioner of social services, and any  other  state
agency  or other source the director may deem appropriate, shall approve
reimbursement methodologies for tuition and for maintenance. Any modifi-
cation in the approved reimbursement methodologies shall be  subject  to
the  approval  of the director of the budget. [Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, rule or regulation  to  the  contrary,  tuition  rates
established for the nineteen hundred ninety-five--ninety-six school year
shall  exclude  the  two percent cost of living adjustment authorized in
rates established  for  the  nineteen  hundred  ninety-four--ninety-five
school  year.] TUITION RATES APPROVED FOR THE TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN--TWO
THOUSAND FIFTEEN SCHOOL YEAR AND  THEREAFTER  FOR  SPECIAL  SERVICES  OR
PROGRAMS PROVIDED TO SCHOOL-AGE STUDENTS BY APPROVED PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL
OR  NON-RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILI-
TIES THAT ARE LOCATED WITHIN  THE  STATE,  AND  BY  SPECIAL  ACT  SCHOOL
DISTRICTS  SHALL  GROW  BY A PERCENTAGE EQUAL TO THE GREATER OF: (I) THE
AVERAGE, ROUNDED TO THREE DECIMAL PLACES, OF THE QUOTIENTS OF THE  TOTAL
PERSONAL  INCOME OF TAXPAYERS IN THE STATE FOR EACH STATE FISCAL YEAR IN
THE THREE-YEAR PERIOD FINISHING WITH THE  STATE  FISCAL  YEAR  ONE  YEAR
PRIOR  TO THE STATE FISCAL YEAR IN WHICH THE BASE YEAR COMMENCED DIVIDED
BY THE TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME OF TAXPAYERS OF THE STATE  FOR  EACH  IMME-
DIATELY  PRECEDING  STATE  FISCAL  YEAR, ROUNDED TO THREE DECIMAL PLACES
MINUS ONE, OR (II) ZERO.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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