STATE OF NEW YORK
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6060
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 11, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to payment of moneys due
school districts for prior years claims
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 within [the limit of the appropriation designated therefor
7 provided, however, that each eligible claim shall be payable in the
8 order that it has been approved for payment by the commissioner, but in
9 no case shall a single claim draw down more than forty percent of the
10 appropriation so designated for a single year, and provided further that
11 no claim shall be set aside for insufficiency of funds to make a
12 complete payment, but shall be eligible for a partial payment in one
13 year and shall retain its priority date status for appropriations desig-
14 nated for such purposes in future years] one year of the submission of
15 such claim.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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