STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to funds for teacher
resource and computer training centers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 316 of the education law, as
2 amended by section 4-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 8. Funds provided each school year to school districts and boards of
5 cooperative educational services by the commissioner to plan, establish
6 and operate teacher resource and computer training centers shall not
7 exceed two million dollars per center, except that for the city school
8 district for the city of New York such [center] funding limitation shall
9 not [exceed sixteen million eight hundred thousand dollars] apply; and
10 provided further that each approved center shall receive not less than
11 twenty thousand dollars. In any year in which there is a statewide
12 increase in funding for teacher resource and computer training centers,
13 such increase shall be distributed proportionately among existing
14 centers that have satisfactorily fulfilled the requirements of such
15 centers' current grant. A portion of the increase shall be made avail-
16 able to new applicants to establish new teacher centers, and to current
17 teacher centers to develop and implement regional and statewide teacher
18 center activities.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05456-01-9
