Senate Resolution No. 2707

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

Amending Senate Resolution R1244 of 2021,
establishing a plan setting forth an itemized list
of grantees for certain appropriations for the
2021-2022 state fiscal year for additional
grants-in-aid to certain school districts, public
libraries, and not-for-profit institutions

RESOLVED, That funds originally appropriated in 2021 pursuant to
section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2021 and reappropriated
pursuant to section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2024 which enacts
that in addition to grants allocated pursuant to section 1 of chapter
53 of the laws of 2021, within the State Education Department Aid to
Localities:
Additional funds appropriated in state fiscal year 2021-2022
pursuant to section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2021 which enacts
the aid to localities budget to the state education department under
the prekindergarten through grade twelve education program from the
general fund, local assistance account for additional grants-in-aid to
certain school districts, public libraries, and not-for-profit
institutions. Notwithstanding section 24 of the state finance law or
any provision of law to the contrary, funds from this appropriation
shall be allocated only pursuant to a plan (i) approved by the
temporary president of the senate and the director of the budget which
sets forth either an itemized list of grantees with the amount to be
received by each, or the methodology for allocating such
appropriation, and (ii) which is thereafter included in a senate
resolution calling for the expenditure of such funds, which resolution
must be approved by a majority vote of all members elected to the
senate upon a roll call vote, in accordance with the following
schedule which shall amend, remove from, or add to the schedule
originally approved in Senate Resolution R1244 of 2021:

[New York State 250th Commemoration Commission
50,000]
Hudson Guild-Educational Programming
50,000