STATE OF NEW YORK
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9871
IN ASSEMBLY
February 15, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school
districts to establish an extraordinary needs reserve fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3651 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-c to read as follows:
3 1-c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this
4 section, any school district may establish a reserve fund for the
5 payment of unanticipated costs related to the instruction of students
6 with disabilities as defined in section forty-four hundred one of this
7 chapter incurred during the fiscal year, without approval by the quali-
8 fied voters of the district, provided, however, that the total of the
9 monies held in such reserve fund shall not exceed that amount which
10 might be reasonably deemed necessary for the payment of such unantic-
11 ipated costs.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
13 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.
LBD14681-02-8
