A03640 Summary:
BILL NO | A03640 |
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SAME AS | No same as |
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SPONSOR | Miller J |
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Add S309-b, Ed L | |
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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. |
A03640 Actions:
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01/26/2011 | referred to education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/04/2012 | referred to education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/09/2012 | held for consideration in education |
A03640 Floor Votes:
There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
Go to topA03640 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3640 2011-2012 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 26, 2011 ___________ 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