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                                   7108
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to the apportionment of
   moneys for capital  outlays  and  debt  service  for  school  building
   purposes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 6  of  section
 3602  of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (d) to read
 as follows:
   (D) FOR AID PAYABLE IN THE SCHOOL  YEARS  TWO  THOUSAND  NINETEEN--TWO
 THOUSAND  TWENTY  AND  THEREAFTER FOR SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECTS TO REMEDY
 CAPACITY SHORTAGES OF HIGH-NEED SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AS DEFINED PURSUANT TO
 REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER IN CLAUSE (C) OF THIS  SUBPARAGRAPH  AND
 ARE  LOCATED  IN  A  COUNTY  WITH A POPULATION OF MORE THAN NINE HUNDRED
 FORTY THOUSAND AND LESS THAN ONE MILLION INHABITANTS  ACCORDING  TO  THE
 TWO  THOUSAND  TEN  FEDERAL  CENSUS,  AS  APPROVED BY THE VOTERS OF SUCH
 SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BY SUCH BOARD OF EDUCATION OF A CITY SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 IN  A  CITY WITH MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND INHABITANTS,
 ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, MAY  COMPUTE  AID  UNDER
 THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION USING THE HIGH-NEED SECONDARY SUPPLE-
 MENTAL  BUILDING  AID RATIO, WHICH SHALL BE THE LESSER OF: (A) THE PROD-
 UCT, COMPUTED TO THREE DECIMALS WITHOUT ROUNDING, OF THE GREATER OF  THE
 BUILDING  AID RATIOS COMPUTED PURSUANT TO SUBCLAUSES (I), (II) AND (III)
 OF CLAUSE (B) OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH MULTIPLIED BY TEN PERCENT; OR (B) THE
 POSITIVE REMAINDER OF NINETY-EIGHT ONE-HUNDREDTHS LESS  THE  GREATER  OF
 THE  BUILDING  AID  RATIOS COMPUTED PURSUANT TO SUBCLAUSES (I), (II) AND
 (III) OF CLAUSE (B)  OF  THIS  SUBPARAGRAPH.  SCHOOL  BUILDING  PROJECTS
 ELIGIBLE  FOR  AID  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  CLAUSE SHALL INCLUDE PROJECTS TO
 ADDRESS CAPACITY SHORTAGES OF AT LEAST TEN  PERCENT  OF  THE  CALCULATED
 CAPACITY  OF  THE  DISTRICT  OR  AT  LEAST TEN PERCENT OF THE CALCULATED
 CAPACITY OF ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT,  AS  DETER-
 MINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
              

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09041-01-9