STATE OF NEW YORK
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8357--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 5, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the payment of aid to
school districts providing an education to Native American pupils
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 4115 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 725 of the laws of 1956, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 b. [During the first] For any school year, beginning on or after July
5 first, [nineteen hundred fifty-six] two thousand sixteen, in which Indi-
6 an children are educated in the schools of a school district pursuant to
7 the provisions of subdivision two of section forty-one hundred one of
8 this article, there shall be apportioned and paid to each such school
9 district the sum of:
10 (1) Three hundred thirty dollars for each Indian pupil in grades one
11 through six in average daily attendance during the month of October,
12 including kindergarten Indian children who attend for a full day. Where
13 kindergarten Indian children attend but one-half day the district shall
14 be entitled to one hundred sixty-five dollars for each such pupil.
15 (2) Four hundred twelve dollars and fifty cents for each Indian pupil
16 in grades seven to twelve inclusive in average daily attendance during
17 the month of October. Such amount shall be paid to the school district
18 within one hundred eighty days of the date that the number of Indian
19 pupils educated by the district is determined by the department.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10617-06-6
