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A05610 Summary:

BILL NO	A05610
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Fitzpatrick
COSPNSR	Giglio JM, Montesano
MLTSPNSR	Manktelow
Amd §3604, Ed L
Provides that no school district shall be eligible to receive the full apportionment of state aid to which it is entitled if evidence is found by the state comptroller when an audit is conducted and such audit finds that a district has inappropriate excess of their unexpended surplus funds and such school district did not reduce the school tax levy in a proportion equal to the excess of four percent of the current year school budget.

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A05610 Actions:

BILL NO	A05610
02/22/2021	referred to education
01/05/2022	referred to education

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A05610 Committee Votes:

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A05610 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5610
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 22, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. FITZPATRICK, J. M. GIGLIO, MONTESANO -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. MANKTELOW -- read once and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Education
 
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district state
          aid eligibility
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  3604 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
     3    8-a. No school district shall be eligible to receive the  full  appor-
     4  tionment  of state aid to which it is entitled under other provisions of
     5  this chapter if evidence is found by the state comptroller when an audit
     6  is conducted and such audit finds  that  a  district  has  inappropriate
     7  excess  of  their  unexpended surplus funds and such school district did
     8  not reduce the school tax levy in a proportion equal to  the  excess  of
     9  four percent of the current year school budget as required under section
    10  thirteen  hundred eighteen of the real property tax law, commencing with
    11  the two thousand twenty-one-two thousand  twenty-two  school  year.  The
    12  commissioner  shall  withhold  from the full apportionment of such state
    13  aid an amount equal to the excess of four  percent  in  such  unexpended
    14  surplus funds of the current year school budget.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08103-01-1

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