Bill Text: NY A10816 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits apportionment of state aid where a school was not in session due to extraordinary weather conditions, disasters or emergencies during the two thousand twelve-two thousand thirteen school year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-11-02 - referred to education [A10816 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A10816-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10816 I N A S S E M B L Y November 2, 2012 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting apportion- ment of state aid where a school was not in session due to extraor- dinary weather conditions, disasters or emergencies during the two thousand twelve-two thousand thirteen school year THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 3604 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 7-b to read as follows: 3 7-B. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF THIS 4 SECTION, FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE--TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR, 5 THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DISREGARD SUCH REDUCTION, UP TO TEN DAYS, IN THE 6 APPORTIONMENT OF PUBLIC MONEY, IF THE SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT WERE NOT 7 IN SESSION FOR ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS BECAUSE OF EXTRAORDINARILY 8 ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, FEDERAL DECLARATIONS OF NATURAL DISASTERS, A 9 STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY OF THE EXECUTIVE 10 LAW, THE CLOSING OF TRANSPORTATION ROUTES PURSUANT TO A DECLARED LOCAL 11 STATE OF EMERGENCY, IMPAIRMENT OF HEATING FACILITIES, INSUFFICIENCY OF 12 WATER SUPPLY, SHORTAGE OF FUEL, LACK OF ELECTRICITY, OR THE DESTRUCTION 13 OF A SCHOOL BUILDING EITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART, AND IF, FURTHER, THE 14 DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT CERTIFIES THAT SUCH DISTRICT CANNOT MAKE UP SUCH 15 DAYS OF INSTRUCTION BY USING FOR THE SECONDARY GRADES ALL SCHEDULED 16 VACATION DAYS WHICH OCCUR PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED REGENTS EXAMINA- 17 TION DAY IN JUNE, AND FOR THE ELEMENTARY GRADES ALL SCHEDULED VACATION 18 DAYS WHICH OCCUR PRIOR TO THE LAST SCHEDULED REGENTS EXAMINATION DAY IN 19 JUNE; AND IF, FURTHER, THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT CERTIFIES TO THE 20 COMMISSIONER THAT TO DO SO WOULD IMPERIL STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF 21 WHILE REPAIRS CONTINUE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "SCHEDULED 22 VACATION DAYS" SHALL MEAN DAYS ON WHICH THE SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT ARE 23 NOT IN SESSION AND FOR WHICH NO PROHIBITION EXISTS IN SUBDIVISION EIGHT 24 OF THIS SECTION FOR THEM TO BE IN SESSION. 25 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD16615-01-2