STATE OF NEW YORK
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7970--C
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the
Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing for basic
school supplies for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade
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 3602-g
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3602-g. Apportionment of moneys to school districts for basic
4 supplies. 1. Definitions. As used in this section the following terms
5 are defined as follows:
6 a. "Basic school supplies" shall mean items generally required by a
7 student to attend school including, but not limited to, pencils, pens,
8 highlighters, crayons, markers, erasers, index cards, paper, notebooks,
9 binders, folders, scissors, rulers and calculators.
10 b. "School district" shall mean the school district which the student
11 attends.
12 2. a. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to grant to
13 each school district ten dollars per student enrolled in public schools
14 in the school district in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade
15 beginning with the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school
16 year. Each school district shall use such funds to furnish such students
17 with basic school supplies on or before the first day of school each
18 year.
19 b. Any funds which are unused shall be returned to the commissioner.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11601-09-8
