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S00528 Summary:

BILL NOS00528
 
SAME ASSAME AS A03430
 
SPONSORMAYER
 
COSPNSRASHBY, BAILEY, BORRELLO, BROUK, GALLIVAN, JACKSON, LIU, MARTINS, WEBER
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§1950 & 3602, Ed L
 
Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.
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S00528 Actions:

BILL NOS00528
 
01/08/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION
01/28/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
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S00528 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           528
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER,  ASHBY, BAILEY, BORRELLO, BROUK, GALLIVAN,
          JACKSON, MARTINS, WEBER -- 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 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  five--two thousand twenty-six school year  and  prior  school  years  in
    15  excess of thirty thousand dollars, (ii) for aid payable in the two thou-
    16  sand  twenty-six--two  thousand  twenty-seven  school  year in excess of
    17  forty thousand dollars, (iii) for aid payable in the two thousand  twen-
    18  ty-seven--two thousand twenty-eight school year in excess of fifty thou-
    19  sand dollars, and (iv) for aid payable in the two thousand twenty-eight-
    20  -two thousand twenty-nine school year and thereafter, in excess of sixty
    21  thousand dollars, shall not be such an approved expense, and except also
    22  that  administrative  and clerical expenses shall not exceed ten percent
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01336-01-5

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

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     1  or  greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the
     2  preceding school year.
     3    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
     4  calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career  education  payable  in  the
     5  2025-2026 school year and years thereafter.
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