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Assembly Bill A10698

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that school aid for prior years may be paid from funds for the general support for schools after deduction of excess payments that have been made

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2015-A10698 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8009
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3604, Ed L

2015-A10698 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that school aid for prior years may be paid from funds for the general support for schools after deduction of excess payments that have been made; directs the education department to make prior years' school aid payments to the Fredonia central school district during the 2016 - 2017 state fiscal year.

2015-A10698 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10698

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 13, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Goodell) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state  aid  to  school
  districts  which  is  due for prior years; and to direct the education
  department to make a payment of prior year school aid to the  Fredonia
  central school district

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

  Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the  educa-
tion law, as added by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read
as follows:
  c.  Payment  of moneys due for prior years. State aid payments due for
prior years in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision  shall
be  paid  EITHER:  (1)  FROM  FUNDS AVAILABLE IN THE GENERAL SUPPORT FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOL APPROPRIATION AS A  RESULT  OF  THE  DEDUCTION  OF  EXCESS
PAYMENTS  OF  AID  PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION, OR (2)
within the limit of  the  appropriation  designated  therefor  provided,
however,  that each eligible claim shall be payable in the order that it
has been approved for payment by the commissioner, but in no case  shall
a single claim draw down more than forty percent of the appropriation so
designated  for  a single year, and provided further that no claim shall
be set aside for insufficiency of funds to make a complete payment,  but
shall be eligible for a partial payment in one year and shall retain its
priority  date status for appropriations designated for such purposes in
future years.
  S 2. The education department  shall  make  payment  to  the  Fredonia
central  school  district  pursuant  to subparagraph 1 of paragraph c of
subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the education  law  in  the  2016--2017
state fiscal year.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15757-01-6

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