Bill Text: NY A07970 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to allocate specified funds to provide basic school supplies for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-06 - print number 7970c [A07970 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07970-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7970--C
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 23, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  again
          reported  from  said  committee  with amendments, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  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 committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to providing for basic
          school supplies for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3602-g
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3602-g.  Apportionment  of  moneys  to  school  districts for basic
     4  supplies. 1. Definitions. As used in this section  the  following  terms
     5  are defined as follows:
     6    a.  "Basic  school  supplies" shall mean items generally required by a
     7  student to attend school including, but not limited to,  pencils,  pens,
     8  highlighters,  crayons, markers, erasers, index cards, paper, notebooks,
     9  binders, folders, scissors, rulers and calculators.
    10    b. "School district" shall mean the school district which the  student
    11  attends.
    12    2.  a.  The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to grant to
    13  each school district ten dollars per student enrolled in public  schools
    14  in  the  school  district  in  grades kindergarten through twelfth grade
    15  beginning with the two thousand  nineteen--two  thousand  twenty  school
    16  year. Each school district shall use such funds to furnish such students
    17  with  basic  school  supplies  on or before the first day of school each
    18  year.
    19    b. Any funds which are unused shall be returned to the commissioner.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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