STATE OF NEW YORK
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6370
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the apportionment of
moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building
purposes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section
2 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (d) to read
3 as follows:
4 (d) For aid payable in the school years two thousand seventeen--two
5 thousand eighteen and thereafter for school building projects to remedy
6 capacity shortages of high-need school districts, as defined pursuant to
7 regulations of the commissioner in clause (c) of this subparagraph and
8 are located in a county with a population of more than nine hundred
9 forty thousand and less than one million inhabitants according to the
10 two thousand ten federal census, as approved by the voters of such
11 school district or by such board of education of a city school district
12 in a city with more than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants,
13 on or after July first, two thousand fifteen, may compute aid under the
14 provisions of this subdivision using the high-need secondary supple-
15 mental building aid ratio, which shall be the lesser of: (A) the prod-
16 uct, computed to three decimals without rounding, of the greater of the
17 building aid ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and (iii)
18 of clause (b) of this subparagraph multiplied by ten percent; or (B) the
19 positive remainder of ninety-eight one-hundredths less the greater of
20 the building aid ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and
21 (iii) of clause (b) of this subparagraph. School building projects
22 eligible for aid pursuant to this clause shall include projects to
23 address capacity shortages of at least ten percent of the calculated
24 capacity of the district or at least ten percent of the calculated
25 capacity of elementary or secondary schools of the district, as deter-
26 mined by the commissioner.
27 § 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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