S1012A-2011 Actions

• Feb 13, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 1012A
• Feb 13, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO EDUCATION
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO EDUCATION

S1012A-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1012A

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law, in relation to
providing the Yonkers city school district with additional supplemental
education improvement plan funds

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:  The purpose of this legislation is to
provide the Yonkers City School District with additional Supplemental
Improvement Plan funds totaling the percentage enrollment growth multi-
plied by the District's Foundation Aid in the base year.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill amends Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of Section
3641 of the Education Law, as amended by Section 29 of Part B of Chapter
57 of the laws of 2008 to provide for additional Supplemental Improve-
ment plan funds based on the percentage increase in enrollment from the
2008-2009 to the 2011-2012 school year multiplied by the district's
total Foundation Aid.

JUSTIFICATION:  The Yonkers City School District has experienced signif-
icant enrollment increases from the 2008-2009 school year to the current
2011-2012 school year. However, the State's freeze of Foundation Aid
funding does not account for this growth thereby placing the District in
the unfortunate position of having to educate more pupils without addi-
tional funding from the State. This legislation recognizes the increase
of 1,347 pupils, a 5.9 percent increase.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2011 - S.1012 Education Committee
2010 - S.7189 (Passed Senate)

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Approximately $8 million for the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.

S1012A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 1012--A
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 5, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Education  -
 recommitted  to  the  Committee on Education in accordance with Senate
 Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing the Yonkers
 city school district with additional supplemental  education  improve
 ment plan funds
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the  educa
 tion  law,  as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws
 of 2008, is amended to read as follows:

 b. To the Yonkers city school district there shall be  paid  seventeen
 million  five  hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) on an annual basis
 PLUS AN AMOUNT EQUIVALENT TO THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE,  CARRIED  TO  FOUR
 DECIMALS, IN THE YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC ENROLLMENT PURSUANT
 TO  FOUNDATION  AID UNDER SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED
 TWO OF THIS ARTICLE FROM  THE  TWO  THOUSAND  EIGHT--TWO  THOUSAND  NINE
 SCHOOL  YEAR TO THE TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE SCHOOL YEAR
 MULTIPLIED BY THE DISTRICT'S FOUNDATION AID AMOUNT. SUCH INCREASE  SHALL
 NOT  BE  SUBJECT  TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN-D OF THIS CHAPTER.  Such
 grant shall be payable from funds  appropriated  for  such  purpose  and
 shall  be  apportioned to the Yonkers city school district in accordance
 with the payment  schedules  contained  in  section  thirty-six  hundred
 nine-a  of  this  article,  notwithstanding  any provision of law to the
 contrary.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04602-04-2

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