What's happening
This bill expands the definition of "tuition" for children with handicapping conditions to include maintenance, administration, and direct reimbursement of actual public expenses.
Why it matters
Broadens what counts as “tuition”. for children with disabilities to include not just instruction, but also costs like maintenance and administration—potentially increasing the amount of funding and support schools can claim for special education services.
Allows for direct reimbursement of actual public expenses. related to educating children with handicapping conditions, meaning schools may be able to recover more of the real costs they incur, especially those that previously fell outside established funding formulas or “cost screens.”
Could reduce financial pressure on local school districts. by ensuring a wider array of special education-related expenses are eligible for state reimbursement, thereby supporting more comprehensive and sustainable services for students with special needs.
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Clarify Special Ed Tuition
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- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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Redefine Tuition for Disabled Students
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Terrence P. Murphy
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3680
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, PRETLOW, SIMON, BENEDETTO, GUNTHER, CAHILL, RA, WALTER, OTIS, MAYER, BUCHWALD, M. G. MILLER, PAULIN, GOODELL, HAWLEY, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, HEVE- SI, LUPARDO, McLAUGHLIN, MOSLEY, SEPULVEDA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the definition of "tuition" for children with handicapping conditions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 4401 of the education law, as amended by chapter 470 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
5. "Tuition" shall mean the per pupil cost of all instructional services, supplies and equipment, the operation, maintenance and administration of instructional facilities and allocable debt service for the instructional facilities, as determined by the commissioner. [Approved tuition] It shall also include direct reimbursement outside the total costs screens, of actual public expenses calculated annually. Tuition shall be computed from expenditures from which no revenue has been received from the following sources:
(a) receipts from the federal government;
(b) any cash receipts which reduce the cost of an item applied against the item therefor, except gifts, donations and earned interest, and
(c) any refunds made or any apportionment or payment received from the state for experimental or special programs as approved by the commissioner.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02328-01-7
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