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A03640 Summary:

BILL NO	A03640
SAME AS	No same as
SPONSOR	Miller J
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add S309-b, Ed L
Directs the commissioner of education to establish areas where there is a need for experienced teachers; authorizes school boards to elect to pay a bonus to an active or retired teacher who would agree to work in a high teacher needs area for a minimum of three years; describes bonus and how payable.

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A03640 Actions:

BILL NO	A03640
01/26/2011	referred to education
01/04/2012	referred to education
05/09/2012	held for consideration in education

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A03640 Floor Votes:

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A03640 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3640
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 26, 2011
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  J. MILLER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to recruiting teachers to
          areas where there is a shortage of teachers
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 309-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 309-b. Recruiting teachers to serve high needs areas. 1. The commis-
     4  sioner shall establish areas of the state which shall be  identified  as
     5  high  teacher  needs  areas, wherein there is and has been a shortage of
     6  experienced teachers.
     7    2. Any board of education may elect to provide a bonus of  up  to  ten
     8  thousand  dollars  for  a tenured active teacher or six thousand dollars
     9  for a retired teacher in good standing, who would be willing to work  in
    10  a  high  needs  area  for  a minimum of three years. Such bonus would be
    11  payable in equal installments over a three year period  at  the  end  of
    12  each academic year.

    13    3.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, payment of such bonus
    14  to a retired teacher shall be  in  addition  to  and  not  diminish  the
    15  retirement benefits which have been earned by such teachers.
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    17  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.
                                                                   LBD08171-01-1

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