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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7970
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 23, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to providing for basic
          school supplies for students in kindergarten through fifth grade;  and
          making an appropriation therefor
          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. Within amounts appropriated therefor, the commissioner is hereby
    13  authorized and directed to grant to each school district ten dollars per
    14  student enrolled in public schools in  the  school  district  in  grades
    15  kindergarten  through  fifth  grade  for the two thousand seventeen--two
    16  thousand eighteen school year. Each school district shall use such funds
    17  to furnish such students with basic school supplies  on  or  before  the
    18  first  day  of school for the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eigh-
    19  teen school year.
    20    b. Any funds which are unused as of the first day of  school  for  the
    21  two  thousand  seventeen--two  thousand  eighteen  school  year shall be
    22  returned to the commissioner. Any funds not granted to a school district
    23  or returned to the commissioner shall be returned to the general fund.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 2. The sum of twelve million dollars ($12,000,000), or so much ther-
     2  eof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the education depart-
     3  ment from any moneys in the state treasury in the general  fund  to  the
     4  credit  of  the local assistance account not otherwise appropriated, and
     5  made  immediately  available,  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the
     6  provisions of this act for the 2017--2018 school year. Such sum shall be
     7  payable on the audit and warrant of the state  comptroller  on  vouchers
     8  certified  or  approved  by the commissioner of education, or his or her
     9  duly designated representative, in the manner prescribed by law.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.