STATE OF NEW YORK
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7866
IN SENATE
June 16, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to regional tuition rates
for special education itinerant services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (B) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph a of subdivi-
2 sion 10 of section 4410 of the education law, as amended by section 11
3 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (B) (i) Commencing with the two thousand fifteen--two thousand sixteen
6 school year, such special education itinerant services shall be provided
7 by approved programs, and such approved programs shall be reimbursed for
8 such services based on the actual attendance of preschool children
9 receiving such services.
10 (ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to
11 the contrary, for the two thousand fifteen--two thousand sixteen school
12 year and thereafter, the commissioner, subject to the approval of the
13 director of the budget, shall establish regional tuition rates for
14 special education itinerant services based on approved actual costs in
15 accordance with a methodology established pursuant to subdivision four
16 of section forty-four hundred five of this article.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15598-01-4