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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Senate Bill S4306
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C) 53rd Senate District
2019-S4306 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §3604, Ed L
2019-S4306 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4306 SPONSOR: ANTONACCI TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to the impact of school days missed due to a state of emergency on state appor- tionment to school districts PURPOSE: This bill establishes that in the event the governor or executive of a local municipality declares a state emergency and the district falls below the required one hundred eighty days to be in session the commis- sioner shall disregard the reduction in the apportionment of public moneys. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 - Amends 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, to have the New York State Education commissioner disregard the reduction in education aid for weather related missed school days based upon a
2019-S4306 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4306 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ANTONACCI -- 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 the impact of school days missed due to a state of emergency on state apportionment to school districts 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. The moneys payable to a school district pursuant to section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this chapter in the current year shall be reduced by one one-hundred eight- ieth 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, lack of electricity, natural gas leakage, unacceptable levels of chemi- cal substances, a credible threat to student safety as reasonably deter- mined by a lead school official or the destruction of a school building either in whole or in part, and if, further, the commissioner finds that such district cannot make up such days of instruction by using for the secondary grades all scheduled vacation days which occur prior to the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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