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Assembly Bill A5770

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides that any special act school districts be held harmless from any reduction in tuition revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation

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2023-A5770 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A2150

2023-A5770 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that any special act school districts established pursuant to Chapter 566 of the Laws of 1967 shall be held harmless from any reduction in tuition revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation arising out of intake closure or limits on the entry of new student placements.

2023-A5770 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5770
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT in relation to tuition revenue and tuition rate calculations and
   rate reconciliation for certain special act school districts
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule, or regulation
 to the contrary, any special act school district established pursuant to
 chapter 566 of the laws of  1967,  as  amended,  subject  to  an  intake
 closure  or  limit  on  the  entry  of new student placements during the
 2021-2022 school year or the 2022-2023 school year by the New York state
 office of children and family services or the New York state  office  of
 mental  health,  shall  be  held  harmless from any reduction in tuition
 revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation aris-
 ing out of such intake closure or limit on  the  entry  of  new  student
 placements  during  the  2021-2022  school  year or the 2022-2023 school
 year. The commissioner of education is  hereby  directed  to  substitute
 2020-2021  school  year  pupil counts reported by any special act school
 district under this act to  calculate  and  finalize  any  tuition  rate
 and/or  tuition rate reconciliation for such special act school district
 and shall submit such tuition rate and/or tuition rate reconciliation to
 the director of the budget and the director  of  the  budget  is  hereby
 directed to approve such submittal. In the event such special act school
 district  under this act sustains a reduction in tuition revenue for the
 2021-2022 school year or the 2022-2023 school year, the school  district
 shall  submit a claim for reimbursement to the commissioner of education
 no later than July 31, 2023 for the amount of such reduction in  tuition
 revenue  including  an  accounting  in  writing of how such reduction in
 tuition revenue was calculated and the director of the budget is  hereby
 directed to approve and pay such claim.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01619-01-3

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