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                                   10552
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 29, 2020
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 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 507 of the laws of 1974, relating  to  providing
   for the apportionment of state monies to certain nonpublic schools, to
   reimburse  them  for  their  expenses  in complying with certain state
   requirements for the administration of state  testing  and  evaluation
   programs  and for participation in state programs for the reporting of
   basic educational data, in relation to holding  harmless  such  monies
   due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3 of chapter 507 of the laws of 1974,  relating  to
 providing  for  the  apportionment  of state monies to certain nonpublic
 schools, to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with  certain
 state  requirements  for  the administration of state testing and evalu-
 ation programs and for participation in state programs for the reporting
 of basic educational data, as amended by chapter  347  of  the  laws  of
 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   §  3.  Apportionment.  a. The commissioner shall annually apportion to
 each qualifying school, for school years beginning  on  and  after  July
 first, nineteen hundred seventy-four, an amount equal to the actual cost
 incurred  by  each  such  school  during  the  preceding school year for
 providing services required by law  to  be  rendered  to  the  state  in
 compliance  with  the  requirements  of  the  state's  pupil  evaluation
 program, the basic educational data system,  regents  examinations,  the
 statewide  evaluation  plan,  the uniform procedure for pupil attendance
 reporting, the state's immunization  program  and  other  similar  state
 prepared examinations and reporting procedures.
   b.  Such  nonpublic  schools shall be eligible to receive aid based on
 the number of days or portion of days attendance is taken and  either  a
 5.0/5.5  hour  standard instructional day, or another work day as certi-
 fied by the nonpublic school officials, in accordance with the methodol-
 ogy for computing salary and  benefits  applied  by  the  department  in
 paying  aid for the two thousand twelve--two thousand thirteen and prior
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 school years. SUCH NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS SHALL BE  ELIGIBLE  TO  RECEIVE  NO
 LESS THAN THE HIGHEST OF THEIR AID IN THE LAST THREE YEARS NOTWITHSTAND-
 ING THE DISRUPTION OF SCHOOL FUNCTIONS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE AFFECT SUCH
 SCHOOLS'  ELIGIBILITY,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED TO THE INABILITY TO
 ADMINISTER STATE ASSESSMENTS, DUE TO THE RESPONSE OF COVID-19.
   c.   The commissioner shall  annually  apportion  to  each  qualifying
 school  in  the  cities  of  New York, Buffalo and Rochester, for school
 years beginning on or after July first two thousand sixteen,  an  amount
 equal to the actual cost incurred by each such school during the preced-
 ing  school  year in meeting the recording and reporting requirements of
 the state school immunization program, provided that the state's liabil-
 ity shall be limited to the amount appropriated for this purpose.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.