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                                   10683
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2018
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  providing  financial
   aid  to  certain  school districts which provide half-day kindergarten
   programs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Paragraphs a and c of subdivision 9 of section 3602 of the
 education law, paragraph a as amended by section 9 of part A of  chapter
 57  of  the  laws of 2013 and paragraph c as added by section 12 of part
 CCC of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, are amended to read as follows:
   a. For aid payable in  the  two  thousand  seven--two  thousand  eight
 school year AND THE TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN--TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN SCHOOL
 YEAR  AND  THE  TWO THOUSAND TWENTY--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE SCHOOL YEAR
 and thereafter, school districts which provided any half-day  kindergar-
 ten  programs  or  had  no kindergarten programs in the nineteen hundred
 ninety-six--ninety-seven school year and in the  base  year,  and  which
 have  not  received  an  apportionment pursuant to this paragraph in any
 prior school year, shall be eligible for aid equal to the product of the
 district's selected foundation aid calculated  pursuant  to  subdivision
 four  of  this  section  multiplied by the positive difference resulting
 when the full day kindergarten enrollment of children attending programs
 in the district in the base year is subtracted from such  enrollment  in
 the current year.
   c. [Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision,
 school] FOR AID PAYABLE IN THE TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN--TWO THOUSAND NINE-
 TEEN  OR  TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY SCHOOL YEAR, SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS WHICH PROVIDED ANY HALF-DAY KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS  OR  HAD  NO
 KINDERGARTEN  PROGRAMS  IN THE NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-SIX--NINETY-SEVEN
 SCHOOL YEAR AND IN THE BASE YEAR, AND WHICH HAVE NOT RECEIVED AN  APPOR-
 TIONMENT  PURSUANT  TO THIS PARAGRAPH IN ANY PRIOR SCHOOL YEAR, SHALL BE
 ELIGIBLE FOR AID EQUAL TO THE PRODUCT OF THE DISTRICT'S SELECTED FOUNDA-
 TION AID CALCULATED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION  MULTI-
 PLIED  BY  THE  FULL  DAY  KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT OF CHILDREN ATTENDING
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 A. 10683                            2
 
 PROGRAMS IN THE DISTRICT IN THE BASE YEAR. SCHOOL districts receiving an
 apportionment pursuant to [paragraph a of this subdivision  in  the  two
 thousand  eighteen--two  thousand nineteen or two thousand nineteen--two
 thousand twenty school year] THIS PARAGRAPH shall be eligible for (A) an
 apportionment  in  the  following  school  year  equal to the product of
 sixty-five percent multiplied by the aid received by the district pursu-
 ant to paragraph a of this subdivision in the prior school year, and (B)
 an apportionment in the school year after the following  year  equal  to
 the product of thirty-five percent multiplied by the aid received by the
 district pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision in the year preced-
 ing the prior year.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as section 12 of part CCC of chapter 59  of  the  laws  of  2018,
 takes effect.