Bill Text: NY A03118 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes that tuition rates shall grow by a percentage equal to the general support for public schools appropriation provided to schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A03118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03118-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3118

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Education

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  approval  of
          reimbursement methodologies for tuition and maintenance

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as  amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    c. The director of the budget, in consultation with  the  commissioner
     5  of  education,  the commissioner of social services, and any other state
     6  agency or other source the director may deem appropriate, shall  approve
     7  reimbursement methodologies for tuition and for maintenance. Any modifi-
     8  cation  in  the approved reimbursement methodologies shall be subject to
     9  the approval of the director of the budget. [Notwithstanding  any  other
    10  provision  of  law,  rule  or  regulation to the contrary, tuition rates
    11  established for the nineteen hundred ninety-five--ninety-six school year
    12  shall exclude the two percent cost of living  adjustment  authorized  in
    13  rates  established  for  the  nineteen  hundred ninety-four--ninety-five
    14  school year] Tuition rates approved for the two thousand  twenty-three--
    15  two thousand twenty-four school year and thereafter for special services
    16  or programs provided to school-age students by approved private residen-
    17  tial or non-residential schools for the education of students with disa-
    18  bilities  that  are  located  within the state and by special act school
    19  districts shall grow by a percentage equal to the  general  support  for
    20  public schools appropriation provided to schools.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07290-01-3