Provides that certain schools shall experience no financial harm for reduced enrollment or inability to operate for the 2020-2021 school year due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 25, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT in relation to providing that certain schools shall experience no
financial harm for reduced enrollment due to the outbreak of coronavi-
rus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the
2 contrary, if as a result of the state of emergency that was executed in
3 Executive Order No. 202 on March 7, 2020, approved private schools serv-
4 ing students with disabilities subject to articles 81 and 89 of the
5 education law, special act school districts, state supported schools
6 pursuant to article 85 of the education law, and approved preschool
7 special class and special class in an integrated setting programs pursu-
8 ant to section 4410 of the education law experience a reduction in
9 enrollment during the 2020-2021 school year, the per diem and/or tuition
10 rate shall be administratively adjusted by the state education depart-
11 ment, with no approval required by the division of the budget, so that
12 such schools experience no financial harm for reduced enrollment.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07557-01-1
