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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, HOOPER, CROUCH, TENNEY -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO, LOPEZ, McLAUGHLIN, RIVERA, STECK -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to exempting certain
consolidated school districts from provisions of law requiring re-com-
putation upon sale of building aid for projects for the construction,
acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of school
buildings
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph 8 of paragraph e of subdivision 6 of section
3602 of the education law, as added by section 31 of part A of chapter
58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
(8) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary,
AND UNLESS THE DISTRICT WAS FORMED AS A RESULT OF A CONSOLIDATION OF AT
LEAST TWO SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS, where, during the
period of assumed amortization relating to a project for the
construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement
of a school building, the school building is sold or ownership is other-
wise transferred to an entity other than the school district or city and
such transfer results in the building no longer being operated by the
school district as a public elementary or secondary school that is not
independent or autonomous, the district shall, within sixty days of the
transfer of ownership, notify the commissioner of such sale or transfer,
and shall provide such additional information about the sale or transfer
as the commissioner may require, in a form prescribed by the commission-
er, and the commissioner shall re-compute the building aid, if any,
payable for such project pursuant to this subparagraph, except to the
extent such re-computation would conflict with the provisions of section
twenty-seven hundred ninety-nine-tt of the public authorities law. The
commissioner shall deduct the revenues received by the school district
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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or city as a result of such sale or transfer from the approved total
project cost and, based on such adjusted project cost, establish a new
assumed amortization for the remaining useful life of the project under
the applicable provisions of this paragraph.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.