Senate Bill S8304

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing school districts to start classes before the first of September

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S8304 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3604, Ed L

2017-S8304 - Summary

Establishes that school districts can start classes up to three days before the first of September without losing department of education funding provided that the schools are in session for at least one hundred eighty days.

2017-S8304 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8304 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8304
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 27, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. PHILLIPS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  school
   districts to start classes before the first of September
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3604  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  section  3  of part B of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
 amended to read as follows:
   7. No district shall be entitled to any portion of such school  moneys
 on  such  apportionment  unless  the  report of the trustees or board of
 education for the preceding school  year  shall  show  that  the  public
 schools  were actually in session in the district and taught by a quali-
 fied teacher or by successive qualified teachers or by qualified  teach-
 ers  for not less than one hundred eighty days.  BOARDS OF EDUCATION AND
 COMMUNITY BOARDS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THIS STATE SHALL  BE  AUTHORIZED
 TO START THE SCHOOL YEAR UP TO SEVEN DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER,
 PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  SUCH  SCHOOL  YEAR  CONSISTS  OF AT LEAST ONE
 HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS AS SET FORTH IN THIS SUBDIVISION. The moneys payable
 to a school district pursuant to section thirty-six  hundred  nine-a  of
 this [chapter] PART in the current year shall be reduced by one one-hun-
 dred  eightieth of the district's total foundation aid for each day less
 than one hundred eighty days that the schools of the district were actu-
 ally in  session,  except  that  the  commissioner  may  disregard  such
 reduction,  up to five days, in the apportionment of public money, if he
 finds that the schools of the district  were  not  in  session  for  one
 hundred  eighty  days  because of extraordinarily adverse weather condi-
 tions, impairment of heating facilities, insufficiency of water  supply,
 shortage of fuel, lack of electricity, natural gas leakage, unacceptable
 levels  of  chemical  substances, a credible threat to student safety as
 reasonably determined by a lead school official or the destruction of  a
 school building either in whole or in part, and if, further, the commis-
 sioner  finds that such district cannot make up such days of instruction
 by using for the secondary grades  all  scheduled  vacation  days  which
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

2017-S8304A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3604, Ed L

2017-S8304A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes that school districts can start classes up to three days before the first of September without losing department of education funding provided that the schools are in session for at least one hundred eighty days.

2017-S8304A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8304A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8304--A
     Cal. No. 1730
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 27, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. PHILLIPS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
   discharged  and  said  bill  committed  to  the  Committee on Rules --
   ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered  reprinted,  retaining
   its place in the order of third reading

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to allowing school
   districts to start classes before the first of September
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section 3604 of the education law, as
 amended by section 3 of part B of chapter 54 of the  laws  of  2016,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   7.  No district shall be entitled to any portion of such school moneys
 on such apportionment unless the report of  the  trustees  or  board  of
 education  for  the  preceding  school  year  shall show that the public
 schools were actually in session in the district and taught by a  quali-
 fied  teacher or by successive qualified teachers or by qualified teach-
 ers for not less than one hundred eighty days.  BOARDS OF EDUCATION  AND
 COMMUNITY  BOARDS  OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THIS STATE SHALL BE AUTHORIZED
 TO START THE SCHOOL YEAR UP TO THREE DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER,
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH  SCHOOL  YEAR  CONSISTS  OF  AT  LEAST  ONE
 HUNDRED  EIGHTY  DAYS  AS SET FORTH IN THIS SUBDIVISION; PROVIDED, ADDI-
 TIONALLY THAT SUCH AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAIN-
 ING AND SUCH BARGAINING MAY BE FOR THE SOLE  PURPOSE  OF  ADJUSTING  THE
 INSTRUCTIONAL  START  OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. The moneys payable to a school
 district pursuant to section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this [chapter]
 PART in the current year shall be reduced by one  one-hundred  eightieth
 of  the  district's  total  foundation  aid  for  each day less than one
 hundred eighty days that the schools of the district  were  actually  in
 session,  except  that the commissioner may disregard such reduction, up
 to five days, in the apportionment of public money, if he finds that the
 schools of the district were not in session for one hundred eighty  days
 because  of  extraordinarily  adverse  weather conditions, impairment of
 heating facilities, insufficiency of water  supply,  shortage  of  fuel,

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