S3016-2013 Actions

• Jan 28, 2013: REFERRED TO EDUCATION

S3016-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3016

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:  To provide the Yonkers City School District with additional
SEIP Funds totaling the percentage enrollment growth multiplied 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 SEIP Funds
based on the percentage increase in enrollment from the 2008-2009 to
the 2012-2013 school year multiplied by the District's total
Foundation Aid.

JUSTIFICATION:  The Yonkers city School District has experienced
significant enrollment increases flora the 2008-2009 school year to
the current 2012-2013 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 additional funding from the State. This
legislation recognizes the increase of approximately 1,347 pupils, a
5.9% increase.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:  2010 - S.7189 Passed Senate 2011- S.1012 Died
Education Committee 2012 - S.1012A - Died Education Committee

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Approximately $8 million to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.

S3016-2013 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    3016

                         2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              January 28, 2013
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- 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 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 TEN--TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN
  SCHOOL YEAR TO THE TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN--TWO THOUSAND  FOURTEEN  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, 2014.



   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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