New York Assembly Bill A02930 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2930 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing certain school districts to establish excess tuition reserve funds The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3651 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 1-c to read as follows: 3 1-c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this 4 section, in any school district that contracts with another school 5 district for the education of some of their students for general educa- 6 tion or special education purposes, the board of education of such 7 school district may establish a reserve for excess tuition payments 8 caused by: (a) increases in number of tuition paying students from the 9 previous fiscal year; or (b) increases in the amount of tuition payments 10 charged per student from the previous fiscal year, in order to stabilize 11 the school district property tax levy, without approval of the qualified 12 voters of the school district. The amount of such reserve shall not 13 exceed the average annual amount expended for such purposes over the 14 three previous completed fiscal years. This subdivision shall only 15 apply to school districts with an enrollment of fifteen hundred students 16 or less where the total cost of tuition payments to other school 17 districts is one million dollars or more. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05677-01-3