Bill Text: NY S00840 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred as a result of an influx of migrant students entering the schools of the districts; directs the governor to submit chapter amendments to the Aid to Localities budget.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00840 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00840-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           840

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  TEDISCO,  BORRELLO,  OBERACKER  -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to providing additional
          reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred as a result of
          an influx of migrant students entering the schools of the districts

          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 3605
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3605.  Additional  state  reimbursement  to  school  districts.  1.
     4  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the state shall
     5  provide additional reimbursement to  each  school  district  for  actual
     6  expenses,  if  any,  incurred  by  the school district as a result of an
     7  influx of migrant students entering the schools of the district.
     8    2. Within thirty days after the commencement of the school  year,  the
     9  governor  shall prepare and submit to the legislature chapter amendments
    10  to the aid to localities budget providing for  additional  reimbursement
    11  to  repay school districts for any and all actual expenses referenced in
    12  subdivision one of this section.
    13    3. Such reimbursement moneys shall be paid upon the audit of  vouchers
    14  certified  by the chief fiscal officer for the school district demanding
    15  reimbursement for actual expenses incurred by such school district as  a
    16  result  of  an  influx  of  migrant students entering the schools of the
    17  district.
    18    § 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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