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.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2150
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 15, 2025
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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
2023-2024 school year or the 2024-2025 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 2023-2024 school year or the 2024-2025 school
year. The commissioner of education is hereby directed to substitute
2022-2023 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
2023-2024 school year or the 2024-2025 school year, the school district
shall submit a claim for reimbursement to the commissioner of education
no later than July 31, 2025 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.
LBD03828-02-5
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