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Assembly Bill A6747

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects

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2025-A6747 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10573
2017-2018: A3231
2019-2020: A5341
2021-2022: A4122
2023-2024: A1459

2025-A6747 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects; defines an eligible school construction project as one that is entirely funded from capital outlays and has a total project cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less.

2025-A6747 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6747
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the additional  appor-
   tionment of building aid for certain projects
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 6-f of section
 3602 of the education law, as added by section 19 of part H  of  chapter
 83 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  has a total project cost of [one hundred] TWO HUNDRED FIFTY thou-
 sand dollars or less[; provided however, that for any district, no  more
 than  one project shall be eligible pursuant to this subparagraph for an
 apportionment within the same school year] MODIFIED BY AN ANNUAL  COUNTY
 OR  MULTI-COUNTY  LABOR  MARKET  COMPOSITE WAGE RATE, ESTABLISHED BY THE
 COMMISSIONER OF LABOR IN CONSULTATION WITH THE  COMMISSIONER,  FOR  JULY
 FIRST  OF  THE BASE YEAR, INDEXED TO THE MEDIAN OF SUCH COUNTY OR MULTI-
 COUNTY RATES, BUT NOT LESS THAN ONE, UP TO A  MAXIMUM  OF  FIVE  HUNDRED
 THOUSAND  DOLLARS,  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE  BUILDING  AID REGIONAL COST
 FACTOR; AND PROVIDED FURTHER A SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY COMBINE  UP  TO  FIVE
 YEARS  OF  PROJECT ALLOWANCES PURSUANT TO THIS SUBPARAGRAPH AND APPLY TO
 THE COMMISSIONER FOR PROJECT APPROVAL FOR THE ENTIRE  APPORTIONMENT  AND
 SUCH APPORTIONMENT MAY BE USED FOR ONE OR MORE PROJECTS; and/or
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08466-01-5

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