Provides that state aid payments due for prior years shall be paid either from funds available in the general support for public school appropriation as a result of the deduction of excess payments of aid; or within the limit of the appropriation designated therefor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1807
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, NORRIS, ENGLEBRIGHT, JACOBSON,
STECK, THIELE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the payment of moneys
due for prior years and the apportionment of moneys to school
districts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the educa-
2 tion law, as added by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 c. Payment of moneys due for prior years. State aid payments due for
5 prior years in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision shall
6 be paid either: (i) from funds available in the general support for
7 public school appropriation as a result of the deduction of excess
8 payments of aid pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision; or (ii)
9 within the limit of the appropriation designated therefor provided,
10 however, that each eligible claim shall be payable in the order that it
11 has been approved for payment by the commissioner, but in no case shall
12 a single claim draw down more than forty percent of the appropriation so
13 designated for a single year, and provided further that no claim shall
14 be set aside for insufficiency of funds to make a complete payment, but
15 shall be eligible for a partial payment in one year and shall retain its
16 priority date status for appropriations designated for such purposes in
17 future years.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03673-01-1
