New York Assembly Bill A01469 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1469 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to additional financial aid provided to certain school districts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 16-a to read as follows: 3 16-a. Pupil low spending aid. a. Each school district shall be eligi- 4 ble to receive an additional aid apportionment pursuant to this subdivi- 5 sion if such district meets certain thresholds based on the average 6 spending per pupil. Such aid shall be distributed on an annual basis and 7 shall be apportioned as follows: 8 (1) For a district determined to be a high need school district by the 9 commissioner using the most current total funding allocation statements 10 required pursuant to section three thousand six hundred fourteen of this 11 part, the regional spending per pupil as well as the district spending 12 per pupil shall be calculated. If the regional spending per pupil is 13 more than ten percent higher than the district spending per pupil, then 14 such district shall be awarded aid in an amount of one hundred dollars 15 multiplied by the amount of percentage points above ten percent, per 16 pupil. 17 (2) For a district determined to be an average need school district by 18 the commissioner using the most current total funding allocation state- 19 ments required pursuant to section three thousand six hundred fourteen 20 of this part, the regional spending per pupil as well as the district 21 spending per pupil shall be calculated. If the regional spending per 22 pupil is more than ten percent higher than the district spending per 23 pupil, then such district shall be awarded aid in an amount of fifty 24 dollars multiplied by the amount of percentage points above ten percent, 25 per pupil. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05119-01-3 
 A. 1469 2 1 b. For purposes of this subdivision, "regional spending" shall be 2 broken down into the following: 3 (1) Long Island (which consists of Suffolk and Nassau counties); 4 (2) the city of New York (which consists of Bronx, New York, Queens, 5 Brooklyn, and Richmond counties); 6 (3) the Mid-Hudson region (which consists of Sullivan, Ulster, Dutch- 7 ess, Orange, Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland counties); 8 (4) the Southern tier (which consists of Steuben, Schuyler, Tompkins, 9 Chemung, Tioga, Chenango, Broome, and Delaware counties); 10 (5) the Capital region (which consists of Warren, Washington, Sarato- 11 ga, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Albany, Columbia, and Greene counties); 12 (6) the Mohawk valley (which consists of Oneida, Herkimer, Fulton, 13 Montgomery, Otsego, and Schoharie counties); 14 (7) the North country (which consists of Clinton, Franklin, St. 15 Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Hamilton, and Essex counties); 16 (8) the Central region (which consists of Oswego, Cayuga, Onondaga, 17 Madison, and Cortland counties); 18 (9) the Finger Lakes region (which consists of Orleans, Monroe, Wayne, 19 Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Ontario, Seneca, and Yates counties); and 20 (10) the Western region (which consists of Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, 21 Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties). 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.