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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7714
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 31, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. McDONALD, FAHY, NOLAN -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transitional  aid  for
          certain charter schools
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 41 of section 3602 of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added  by  section  18  of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, the
     3  subdivision heading and the opening paragraph as amended by  section  20
     4  of  part  B  of  chapter  57  of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    41. Transitional aid for charter school payments.  a. In  addition  to
     7  any  other apportionment under this section, for the two thousand seven-
     8  -two thousand eight school year and thereafter, a school district  other
     9  than a city school district in a city having a population of one million
    10  or more shall be eligible for an apportionment in an amount equal to the
    11  greater of:
    12    (1) the sum of:
    13    (a) the product of (i) the product of eighty percent multiplied by the

    14  charter  school  basic tuition computed for such school district for the
    15  base year pursuant to section twenty-eight  hundred  fifty-six  of  this
    16  chapter,  multiplied  by  (ii)  the  positive difference, if any, of the
    17  number of resident pupils enrolled in the charter  school  in  the  base
    18  year  less the number of resident pupils enrolled in a charter school in
    19  the year prior to the  base  year,  provided,  however,  that  a  school
    20  district  shall be eligible for an apportionment pursuant to this [para-
    21  graph] clause only if the number of  its  resident  pupils  enrolled  in
    22  charter  schools in the base year exceeds two percent of the total resi-
    23  dent public school district enrollment of such school  district  in  the
    24  base  year  or  the total general fund payments made by such district to

    25  charter schools in the base year for resident pupils enrolled in charter
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  schools exceeds two percent of total general fund expenditures  of  such
     2  district in the base year, plus
     3    (b)  the product of (i) the product of sixty percent multiplied by the
     4  charter school basic tuition computed for such school district  for  the
     5  base  year  pursuant  to  section twenty-eight hundred fifty-six of this
     6  chapter, multiplied by (ii) the positive  difference,  if  any,  of  the
     7  number  of  resident  pupils  enrolled in the charter school in the year

     8  prior to the base year less the number of resident pupils enrolled in  a
     9  charter  school  in the year two years prior to the base year, provided,
    10  however, that a school district shall be eligible for  an  apportionment
    11  pursuant  to  this [paragraph] clause only if the number of its resident
    12  pupils enrolled in charter schools in the year prior to  the  base  year
    13  exceeds two percent of the total resident public school district enroll-
    14  ment  of  such school district in the year prior to the base year or the
    15  total general fund payments made by such district to charter schools  in
    16  the  year prior to the base year for resident pupils enrolled in charter
    17  schools exceeds two percent of the total general  fund  expenditures  of
    18  such district in the year prior to the base year, plus
    19    (c)  the product of (i) the product of forty percent multiplied by the

    20  charter school basic tuition computed for such school district  for  the
    21  base  year  pursuant  to  section twenty-eight hundred fifty-six of this
    22  chapter, multiplied by (ii) the positive  difference,  if  any,  of  the
    23  number of resident pupils enrolled in the charter school in the year two
    24  years prior to the base year less the number of resident pupils enrolled
    25  in  a  charter  school  in  the year three years prior to the base year,
    26  provided, however, that a school  district  shall  be  eligible  for  an
    27  apportionment  pursuant to this [paragraph] clause only if the number of
    28  its resident pupils enrolled in charter schools in the  year  two  years
    29  prior  to the base year exceeds two percent of the total resident public
    30  school district enrollment of such school district in the year two years
    31  prior to the base year or the total general fund payments made  by  such

    32  district to charter schools in the year two years prior to the base year
    33  for  resident  pupils enrolled in charter schools exceeds two percent of
    34  the total general fund expenditures of such district  in  the  year  two
    35  years prior to the base year; or
    36    (2)  for  a Tier 4 eligible school district, the product of the number
    37  of resident pupils enrolled in the charter  school  for  the  base  year
    38  multiplied by the saturation charter tuition amount.
    39    b.  For  the  purposes  of  this subdivision a "Tier 4 eligible school
    40  district" shall be a school district where the quotient of the base year
    41  resident pupils enrolled in charter schools divided by the  total  resi-
    42  dent public school district enrollment, is twenty percent or more, based

    43  on  data  on  file with the commissioner and in the database used by the
    44  commissioner to produce an updated  electronic  data  file  on  February
    45  fifteenth  of the base year pursuant to paragraph b of subdivision twen-
    46  ty-one of section three hundred five of this chapter.
    47    c. For the  purposes  of  this  subdivision  the  "saturation  charter
    48  tuition  amount" shall be twenty percent (.20) multiplied by the charter
    49  school basic tuition computed for such  school  district  for  the  base
    50  year.
    51    [(d)]  d.  For  purposes  of  this  subdivision  the  number of pupils
    52  enrolled in a charter school shall not  include  pupils  enrolled  in  a
    53  charter  school  for  which the charter was approved by a charter entity

    54  contained in paragraph [a] (a) of subdivision three of  section  twenty-
    55  eight hundred fifty-one of this chapter.
    56    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.