Bill Text: NY S06442 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides an incentive apportionment for certain school districts that demonstrate lower allowable transportation expenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S06442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06442-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6442--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 19, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to apportionment for
          certain school districts for lower allowable transportation expenses
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  3602 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
     3    f. In addition to any other apportionment under this subdivision,  for
     4  the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school year and thereaft-
     5  er, a school district other than a city school district in a city having
     6  a population of one million or more inhabitants shall be eligible for an
     7  incentive  apportionment  where  such  district  can  demonstrate to the
     8  commissioner cost savings and  efficiencies  that  results  in  a  lower
     9  allowable  transportation expense for the base year compared to the year
    10  prior to the base year; provided, however,  that  such  school  district
    11  meets  the  requirements  set  forth in subparagraph three of this para-
    12  graph.
    13    (1) The amount of such incentive apportionment  under  this  paragraph
    14  shall be equal to the product of:
    15    (i)  the  positive difference in such district's allowable transporta-
    16  tion expense for the year prior to the base year minus  such  district's
    17  allowable transportation expense for the base year; and
    18    (ii) ten percent.
    19    (2)  The  commissioner  shall  be authorized to approve a claim for an
    20  incentive apportionment under this paragraph provided a school  district
    21  claiming  an  incentive apportionment shall have implemented an approved
    22  transportation efficiency plan and  documented  such  cost  savings  and
    23  efficiencies  in  accordance  with guidelines established by the commis-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10963-03-7
        S. 6442--A                          2
     1  sioner. If the total statewide  incentive  apportionment  claimed  under
     2  this  paragraph  exceeds  three million dollars ($3,000,000), individual
     3  school district incentive apportionments shall  be  prorated  to  ensure
     4  that  the  total statewide incentive apportionment does not exceed three
     5  million dollars ($3,000,000), provided that such prorated  apportionment
     6  computed  and payable as of September one of the school year immediately
     7  following the school year for which such aid is claimed shall be  deemed
     8  final and not subject to change.
     9    (3)  To  be  eligible for the incentive apportionment under this para-
    10  graph:
    11    (i) Such district must be  an  independent  school  district  that  is
    12  subject  to the provisions of section two thousand twenty-three-a of the
    13  education law and that has adopted a budget that does not exceed the tax
    14  levy limit prescribed by that section. The school district must  certify
    15  its  compliance  with  such  tax  levy limit in the manner prescribed by
    16  subdivision two of section two thousand twenty-three-b of the  education
    17  law;
    18    (ii) such district must be a dependent school district that is subject
    19  to  the  provisions  of section three-c of the general municipal law and
    20  that has adopted a budget that  does  not  exceed  the  tax  levy  limit
    21  prescribed  by  that  section. The city must certify its compliance with
    22  such tax levy limit in the  manner  prescribed  by  subdivision  two  of
    23  section three-d of the general municipal law; and
    24    (iii)  such  district  must  have  a  transportation  efficiency  plan
    25  approved by the commissioner.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.