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Assembly Bill A5547

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes school districts to establish an extraordinary needs reserve fund for the expenses of providing special education

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2025-A5547 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S697
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3651, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7689
2019-2020: A11036, S1060, S9002
2021-2022: A1035, S2654
2023-2024: A2402, S197

2025-A5547 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes school districts to establish an extraordinary needs reserve fund for the expenses of providing special education.

2025-A5547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5547
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BOLOGNA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the  establishment  of
   an extraordinary needs reserve fund
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 3651 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 1-c to read as follows:
   1-C.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
 SECTION, ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT  MAY  ESTABLISH  A  RESERVE  FUND  FOR  THE
 PAYMENT OF UNANTICIPATED COSTS RELATED TO THE INSTRUCTION OF STUDENTS AS
 DEFINED IN SUBPARAGRAPH ONE OF PARAGRAPH I OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION
 THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED TWO AND PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION THIR-
 TY-TWO HUNDRED FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER INCURRED THROUGHOUT THE FISCAL YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02824-01-5

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