Bill Text: NY A02620 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act validating certain acts done by the Rochester city school district and making them eligible for certain aid

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-02 - enacting clause stricken [A02620 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02620-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2620
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 21, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN ACT validating  certain  acts  done  by  the  Rochester  city  school
         district and making them eligible for certain aid
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds  that  the
    2  Rochester  city  school  district approved a capital improvement project
    3  which was designated by the state education department as project number
    4  0033-015. In addition, the project was eligible for certain  state  aid.
    5  The  legislature further finds that due to ministerial error, a required
    6  filing for eligibility for such aid was not made by the  district  in  a
    7  timely manner making the district ineligible for certain aid. The legis-
    8  lature  further  finds  that  without  such aid, the capital improvement
    9  project will impose an additional, unanticipated  hardship  on  district
   10  taxpayers.
   11    S  2.  All  the  acts done and proceedings heretofore had and taken or
   12  caused to be had and taken by the Rochester city school district and  by
   13  all  its  officers or agents relating to or in connection with the final
   14  building project report to be filed with the state education  department
   15  for  project  0033-015, and all acts incident thereto, are hereby legal-
   16  ized, validated, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any failure  to
   17  comply  with  the approval and filing provisions of the education law or
   18  any other law or any other statutory authority, rule or  regulation,  in
   19  relation  to  any omission, error, defect, irregularity or illegality in
   20  such proceedings had and taken provided such report is  filed  with  the
   21  state education department no later than July 31, 2009 and provided that
   22  any  amount  due  and  payable to the Rochester city school district for
   23  school years prior to the 2007-2008 school year as a result of this  act
   24  shall be paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph c of subdivision 5
   25  of section 3604 of the education law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S  3.  The  education  department  is  hereby directed to consider the
    2  approved costs of the aforementioned project as valid and  proper  obli-
    3  gations of the Rochester city school district.
    4    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.