Bill Text: NY S05024 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05024 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05024-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5024--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 21, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER,  ASHBY, BAILEY, BORRELLO, BROUK, GALLIVAN,
          WEBER -- read twice and  ordered  printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
          committed  to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Commit-
          tee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  salaries  of
          certain  teachers  and  aides employed by boards of cooperative educa-
          tional services

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2022, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    b.  The  cost of services herein referred to shall be the amount allo-
     5  cated to each component school district  by  the  board  of  cooperative
     6  educational  services  to  defray  expenses  of  such  board,  including
     7  approved expenses from the testing of potable water systems of  occupied
     8  school  buildings under the board's jurisdiction as required pursuant to
     9  section eleven hundred ten of the public health law provided  that  such
    10  expenses  for testing of potable water systems are not reimbursable from
    11  another state or federal source, except that that  part  of  the  salary
    12  paid  any  teacher, supervisor or other employee of the board of cooper-
    13  ative educational services which is, (i) for the  two  thousand  twenty-
    14  four--two  thousand  twenty-five  school  year and prior school years in
    15  excess of thirty thousand dollars, (ii) for aid payable in the two thou-
    16  sand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year in excess of forty
    17  thousand dollars, (iii) for aid payable in the two thousand  twenty-six-
    18  -two  thousand  twenty-seven  school  year  in  excess of fifty thousand
    19  dollars, and (iv) for aid payable in the two thousand  twenty-seven--two
    20  thousand  twenty-eight  school  year  and thereafter, in excess of sixty

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09622-02-4

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     1  thousand dollars, shall not be such an approved expense, and except also
     2  that administrative and clerical expenses shall not exceed  ten  percent
     3  of  the  total  expenses  for purposes of this computation.   Any gifts,
     4  donations  or  interest  earned  by the board of cooperative educational
     5  services or on behalf of the board of cooperative  educational  services
     6  by  the dormitory authority or any other source shall not be deducted in
     7  determining the cost of services  allocated  to  each  component  school
     8  district.  Any payments made to a component school district by the board
     9  of cooperative educational services pursuant to  subdivision  eleven  of
    10  section  six-p  of the general municipal law attributable to an approved
    11  cost of service computed pursuant to this subdivision shall be  deducted
    12  from  the  cost of services allocated to such component school district.
    13  The expense of transportation  provided  by  the  board  of  cooperative
    14  educational services pursuant to paragraph q of subdivision four of this
    15  section  shall  be  eligible for aid apportioned pursuant to subdivision
    16  seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter and no board  of
    17  cooperative  educational  services  transportation  expense  shall be an
    18  approved cost of services for the computation of aid under this subdivi-
    19  sion.  Transportation expense pursuant to  paragraph  q  of  subdivision
    20  four  of  this  section  shall be included in the computation of the ten
    21  percent limitation on administrative and clerical expenses.
    22    § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 10 of section 3602  of  the  education
    23  law,  as  amended  by  section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of
    24  2007, is amended to read as follows:
    25    b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to  such  city
    26  school districts and other school districts which were not components of
    27  a  board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils
    28  in grades [ten] nine through twelve in attendance  in  career  education
    29  programs  as  such programs are defined by the commissioner, subject for
    30  the purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the  director  of  the
    31  budget,  an amount for each such pupil to be computed by multiplying the
    32  career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars] four
    33  thousand one hundred dollars.   Such aid will be  payable  for  weighted
    34  pupils  attending  career  education  programs  operated  by  the school
    35  district and for weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts
    36  with boards of cooperative educational services to attend career  educa-
    37  tion  programs  operated by a board of cooperative educational services.
    38  Weighted pupils for the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of
    39  the attendance of students in grades [ten] nine through twelve in career
    40  education sequences in trade,  industrial,  technical,  agricultural  or
    41  health programs plus the product of sixteen hundredths multiplied by the
    42  attendance  of  students  in  grades [ten] nine through twelve in career
    43  education sequences in business and marketing as defined by the  commis-
    44  sioner  in regulations. The career education aid ratio shall be computed
    45  by subtracting from one the product obtained by  multiplying  fifty-nine
    46  percent  by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed
    47  as a decimal carried to three places without rounding, but not less than
    48  thirty-six percent.
    49    Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
    50  be required to use such amount to support career education  programs  in
    51  the current year.
    52    A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
    53  by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
    54  during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
    55  sion  reduced  in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current or a
    56  succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive

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     1  such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
     2  support of career education programs were continued at a level equal  to
     3  or  greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the
     4  preceding school year.
     5    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
     6  calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career  education  payable  in  the
     7  2024-2025 school year and years thereafter.
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