Authorizes the department of education to conduct a study of the feasibility and impact of requiring the state to provide financial aid to school districts in order to assist the school districts in funding state mandated education programs during the current fiscal crisis or to waive certain mandated education spending for such programs, and to prepare a report of its findings and recommendations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10481
IN ASSEMBLY
May 29, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYWARD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to authorize the department of education to conduct a study of
the feasibility and impact of requiring the state to provide financial
aid to, and/or, waive certain mandated education spending for, munici-
palities in order to assist the school districts in funding state
mandated education programs during the current fiscal crisis and to
prepare a report concerning its findings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The department of education shall conduct a study to deter-
2 mine the feasibility of requiring the state to provide financial aid to
3 school districts during the current fiscal crisis in order to assist the
4 school districts in funding various types of state mandated education
5 programs, or to waive certain mandated education spending for such
6 programs, and the impact of requiring such aid on the state budget and
7 cash flow. This audit shall be completed within three months following
8 the effective date of these provisions.
9 § 2. Upon completion of the study, the commissioner of education or
10 his or her designee shall make a report to the governor, the speaker of
11 the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the minority leader
12 of the assembly and the minority leader of the senate of the findings,
13 conclusions and recommendations arising from the study, and shall submit
14 with such report such legislative proposals as he or she deems necessary
15 to implement the recommendations. This report shall be submitted no
16 later than sixty days after completion of the study.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08291-01-1
