Senate Resolution No. 2696

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

AMENDING Senate Resolution R1410 of 2023
establishing a plan setting forth an itemized list
of grantees for a certain appropriation for the
2023-2024 state fiscal year for purposes of
providing additional funding for school districts
which have experienced a significant financial
hardship created by (1) an extraordinary change in
the taxable property valuation or (2) a significant
shift in tax liability due to a tax certiorari
settlement or judgment as required by a plan setting
forth an itemized list of grantees with the amount
to be received by each, or the methodology for
allocating such appropriation. Such plan shall be
subject to the approval of the temporary president
of the senate and the director of the budget and
thereafter shall be included in a resolution calling
for the expenditure of such monies, which resolution
must be approved by a majority vote of all members
elected to the senate upon a roll call vote

RESOLVED, That funds originally appropriated in 2023 pursuant to
section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2023 and reappropriated
pursuant to section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2024 which enacts
the aid to localities, local assistance account, for purposes of
providing additional funding for school districts which have
experienced a significant financial hardship created by (1) an
extraordinary change in the taxable property valuation or (2) a
significant shift in tax liability due to a tax certiorari settlement
or judgment. Such funds shall be apportioned pursuant to a plan
setting forth an itemized list of grantees with the amount to be
received by each, or the methodology for allocating such
appropriation. Such plan shall be subject to the approval of the
temporary president of the senate and the director of the budget and
thereafter shall be included in a resolution calling for the
expenditure of such monies, which resolution must be approved by a
majority vote of all members elected to the senate upon a roll call
vote, according to the following schedule which shall be added to the
schedule originally approved in Senate Resolution R1410 of 2023:

Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School
district (North Rockland)
1,000,000