Bill Text: NY S01041 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1041 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Removes the cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for city school district for the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01041 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01041-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1041
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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  funds  for  teacher
         resource and computer training centers
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section  316  of  the  education  law,  as
    2  amended  by  section 4-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    8. Funds provided each school year to school districts and  boards  of
    5  cooperative  educational services by the commissioner to plan, establish
    6  and operate teacher resource and computer  training  centers  shall  not
    7  exceed  two  million dollars per center, except that for the city school
    8  district for the city of New York such [center] FUNDING LIMITATION shall
    9  not [exceed sixteen million eight hundred thousand dollars]  APPLY;  and
   10  provided  further  that each approved center shall receive not less than
   11  twenty thousand dollars. In any year  in  which  there  is  a  statewide
   12  increase  in funding for teacher resource and computer training centers,
   13  such  increase  shall  be  distributed  proportionately  among  existing
   14  centers  that  have  satisfactorily  fulfilled  the requirements of such
   15  centers' current grant. A portion of the increase shall be  made  avail-
   16  able  to new applicants to establish new teacher centers, and to current
   17  teacher centers to develop and implement regional and statewide  teacher
   18  center activities.
   19    S 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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