What's happening
This bill allows certain high-need school districts facing capacity shortages to use a more favorable aid ratio for building projects.
Why it matters
Targets high-need school districts in specific counties. The bill focuses on districts located in counties with populations between 940,000 and 1 million, ensuring that the aid is directed toward areas experiencing significant growth or overcrowding.
Expands eligibility for favorable aid to recent and future projects. Projects approved by voters or school boards on or after July 1, 2015, are included, allowing districts that have already begun addressing capacity shortages to benefit retroactively.
Addresses significant capacity shortages. Only projects that remedy at least a 10% shortage in overall district, elementary, or secondary school capacity qualify, ensuring that aid is reserved for districts facing substantial space constraints.
Aims to ease local funding burdens. By allowing these districts to use a more generous aid formula, the measure could reduce reliance on local taxes for capital improvements, potentially accelerating construction timelines and improving learning environments in overcrowded schools.
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Fund High-Need School Buildings
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Jeffrey D. Klein
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6882
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 23, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. MAYER, PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the apportionment of moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (d) to read as follows:
(d) For aid payable in the school years two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen and thereafter for school building projects to remedy capacity shortages of high-need school districts, as defined pursuant to regulations of the commissioner in clause (c) of this subparagraph and are located in a county with a population of more than nine hundred forty thousand and less than one million inhabitants according to the two thousand ten federal census, as approved by the voters of such school district or by such board of education of a city school district in a city with more than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, on or after July first, two thousand fifteen, may compute aid under the provisions of this subdivision using the high-need secondary supplemental building aid ratio, which shall be the lesser of: (A) the product, computed to three decimals without rounding, of the greater of the building aid ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of clause (b) of this subparagraph multiplied by ten percent; or (B) the positive remainder of ninety-eight one-hundredths less the greater of the building aid ratios computed pursuant to subclauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of clause (b) of this subparagraph. School building projects eligible for aid pursuant to this clause shall include projects to address capacity shortages of at least ten percent of the calculated capacity of the district or at least ten percent of the calculated capacity of elementary or secondary schools of the district, as determined 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.
LBD10687-02-7
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