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--B
                               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
        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 eighteen--two thousand nineteen 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.
                                                                   LBD11601-06-7