Bill Text: NY A04122 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects; defines an eligible school construction project as one that is entirely funded from capital outlays and has a total project cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - reported referred to ways and means [A04122 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04122-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4122--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  THIELE,  ABINANTI,  LUPARDO, OTIS, LAVINE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to  the
          Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the additional appor-
          tionment of building aid for certain projects

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 6-f of section
     2  3602  of  the education law, as added by section 19 of part H of chapter
     3  83 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1) has a total project cost of [one hundred] two hundred fifty  thou-
     5  sand  dollars or less[; provided however, that for any district, no more
     6  than one project shall be eligible pursuant to this subparagraph for  an
     7  apportionment  within the same school year] modified by an annual county
     8  or multi-county labor market composite wage  rate,  established  by  the
     9  commissioner  of  labor  in consultation with the commissioner, for July
    10  first of the base year, indexed  to the median   of such    county    or
    11  multi-county  rates,  but  not  less  than  one, up to a maximum of five
    12  hundred thousand dollars, as determined by  the  building  aid  regional
    13  cost  factor;  and  provided further a school district may combine up to
    14  five years of project allowances pursuant to this subparagraph and apply
    15  to the commissioner for project approval for  the  entire  apportionment
    16  and such apportionment may be used for one or more projects; and/or
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05708-02-2