Directs the commissioner of education to distribute certain federal funds for the purpose of educating either unaccompanied minors or English language learners.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8290--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 18, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, CRESPO, JAFFEE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Education -- 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 direct the commissioner of education to distribute certain
federal funds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regu-
2 lation to the contrary, the commissioner of education is directed to
3 distribute any federal funds received for the purposes of educating
4 either unaccompanied minors or English language learners that were
5 received in the 2014-15 and/or 2015-16 school year on a proportional
6 basis to school districts based on the number of such new students each
7 district admitted during the 2014-15 and/or 2015-16 school year.
8 § 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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