Relates to the distribution of aid for high cost students with disabilities; provides financial support in the first year when a new high cost student with a disability moves into a school district during the school year with an individualized education program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7175
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the distribution of
aid for high cost students with disabilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3609-b of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new third undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
3 For aid payable in the two thousand fifteen--two thousand sixteen
4 school year and thereafter, "moneys apportioned" shall mean current year
5 aid provided for current year expenses for new high cost students with
6 disabilities that move into the district during the school year with an
7 individualized education program from a committee on special education
8 of another school district.
9 § 2. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 4405 of the education
10 law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
11 follows:
12 c. The apportionments to each school district pursuant to this subdi-
13 vision shall be based on excess cost paid and attendance during the base
14 year except, beginning in the two thousand fifteen--two thousand sixteen
15 school year and thereafter, "moneys apportioned" shall be based on
16 excess cost paid and attendance during the current year for new students
17 with disabilities that move into the district during the school year
18 with an individualized education program from a committee on special
19 education of another school district requiring attendance at approved
20 private special education programs.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
22 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.
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