Bill Text: NY S00897 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that certain schools shall experience no financial harm for their inability to operate for the full 180 session days due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-11 - SIGNED CHAP.130 [S00897 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00897-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           897

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2020 relating to providing that
          certain schools shall experience no financial harm for reduced enroll-
          ment or inability to operate for the full 180 session days due to  the
          outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as proposed in legis-
          lative  bills  numbers  S.8014-C and A.10193, in relation to providing
          that certain schools shall experience no financial harm for  inability
          to  operate for the full 180 session days due to the outbreak of coro-
          navirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  1  of  a chapter of the laws of 2020 relating to
     2  providing that certain schools shall experience no  financial  harm  for
     3  reduced enrollment or inability to operate for the full 180 session days
     4  due  to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as proposed
     5  in legislative bills numbers S.8014-C and A.10193, is amended to read as
     6  follows:
     7    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation  to  the
     8  contrary,  if as a result of the state of emergency that was executed in
     9  Executive Order No. 202 on March 7, 2020, approved private schools serv-
    10  ing students with disabilities subject to articles  81  and  89  of  the
    11  education  law,  special  act  school districts, state supported schools
    12  pursuant to article 85 of the  education  law,  and  approved  preschool
    13  special class and special class in an integrated setting programs pursu-
    14  ant  to  section 4410 of the education law are unable to operate for the
    15  full 180 session days for the 10-month 2019-2020 school year[, or  expe-
    16  rience  a reduction in enrollment during the 2019-2020 school year], the
    17  180 session day requirement shall be waived  and  the  per  diem  and/or
    18  tuition  rate  shall be [administratively] adjusted [by the state educa-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07203-01-1
        S. 897                              2

     1  tion department, with no approval required by the division of the  budg-
     2  et,]  so  that  such  schools  experience no financial harm for [reduced
     3  enrollment or] inability to operate for the full 180 session days.
     4    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     5  manner as a chapter of the laws  of  2020  relating  to  providing  that
     6  certain  schools  shall experience no financial harm for reduced enroll-
     7  ment or inability to operate for the full 180 session days  due  to  the
     8  outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as proposed in legisla-
     9  tive bills numbers S.8014-C and A.10193, takes effect.