NY State Senate Bill 2021-S3219

Senate Bill S3219

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to transferring funds from the New York state campaign finance fund to the department of education to provide school aid

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Delivered to Governor
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Jan 05, 2022	referred to finance
Jan 28, 2021	referred to finance

2021-S3219 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §92-t, St Fin L

2021-S3219 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Transfers up to $100 million dollars from the New York state campaign finance fund to the department of education to provide school aid up to the amount of the pandemic adjustment which reduced school funding.

2021-S3219 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3219

SPONSOR: RITCHIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to reimbursing school
districts for the pandemic adjustment out of moneys in the New York
state campaign finance fund

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this article is to reimburse New York state school
districts for the loss of funding they have experienced during the
Covid-19 pandemic.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the state finance law to allow for the transfer of
certain public campaign finance funding to New York state school
districts.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As a result of the COVID-19 crisis in our state, New York's schools are
facing a loss of much needed funding, at a time when they are coping
with additional costs resulting from the need to respond to the pandem-
ic. Already underfunded, our schools can ill-afford to lose a single
cent of revenue, and it is critical that sources of revenue be found to
replace lost school funding.

Using state revenues to provide state supported funding for public
campaigns, as recently enacted in the state budget, cannot be justified
at a time when our school are being asked to cope with a loss of fund-
ing. This legislation is a will allow for a transfer of state funds to
our schools so that the children of New York state can continue to
receive the education they deserve, and our hard working and committed
teachers and school personnel can continue to do their jobs.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None. State funding would be redirected from public campaign financing
to school districts.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S3219 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3219
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to reimbursing school
   districts for the pandemic adjustment out of moneys in  the  New  York
   state campaign finance fund

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 92-t of the state finance law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   3-A.  UP  TO ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE
 AVAILABLE OUT OF ANY MONEYS IN THE FUND  NOT  ATTRIBUTABLE  TO  THE  TAX
 CHECK-OFF  UNDER  SECTION  SIX  HUNDRED  THIRTY-H OF THE TAX LAW, MAY BE
 TRANSFERRED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF  REIMBURS-
 ING SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN AN AMOUNT UP TO THE PANDEMIC ADJUSTMENT COMPUTED
 FOR  SUCH  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION NINETEEN OF SECTION
 THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW. MONEYS SHALL BE PAID OUT OF
 THE FUND BY THE STATE COMPTROLLER ON VOUCHERS CERTIFIED OR  APPROVED  BY
 THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED BY LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06548-01-1

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