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S2281Senate2017-2018 SessionSame asA2631

List School Funding by District

Official title

“Requires the budget submitted by the governor to include an itemization, by each individual school district, of appropriations for the support of school districts”

Sponsor Joseph A. GriffoSD-47+7 co-sponsorsAffects Finance
Status
In Assembly Committee
Ways And Means
Impact
3/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 5 of 7

In Assembly · Ways And Means

What's happening

The bill requires the governor's annual budget to include a detailed breakdown of education funding by individual school district.

Why it matters

  1. Increases transparency and accountability. by requiring the governor’s budget to show exactly how much funding each school district will receive, making it easier for the public, local officials, and advocacy groups to track and assess resource allocation.

  2. Empowers local stakeholders. including parents, teachers, and school administrators—to better understand and advocate for their district’s needs, since they’ll have access to detailed, district-specific funding information right in the proposed state budget.

  3. Enables more informed policy debates. by providing lawmakers and the public with granular data on education spending, which can highlight disparities and prompt discussions about equity and adequacy in school funding across different regions.

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List School Funding by District

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Joseph A. Griffo

Senator · Senate District 47

Chair, Energy And Telecommunications

History

  1. Referred to ways and means
  2. Delivered to assembly
  3. Passed senateVote 60–0
  4. Ordered to third reading cal.2100
  5. Reported and committed to rules
  6. Referred to finance
  7. Returned to senate
  8. Died in assembly
  9. Referred to ways and means
  10. Delivered to assembly
  11. Passed senateVote 62–0
  12. Advanced to third reading
Show 3 earlier actions
  1. 2nd report cal.
  2. 1st report cal.1261
  3. Referred to finance

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

A2631Assembly

List School Funds by District

In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Amy Paulin

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2281

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

January 12, 2017

Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, CROCI, GALLIVAN, LARKIN, MARCHIONE, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring itemization, by school district, of proposed appropriations to the education department for the support of school districts

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

Section 1. Section 24 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:

6. In each budget bill submitted annually by the governor, and in every amendment thereof submitted by the governor, which appropriates moneys to the education department for the support of school districts, there shall be included for each such appropriation, the apportionment thereof to each individual school district in the state.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD05636-01-7

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Sponsor's memo

Title of bill

An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring itemization, by school district, of proposed appropriations to the education department for the support of school districts

Purpose

Requires the budget submitted by the governor to include an itemization, by each individual school district, of appropriations for the support of school districts.

Summary of provisions

Section 1. Section 24 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: In each budget bill submitted annually by the governor, and in every amendment thereof submitted by the governor, which appropriates moneys to the education department for the support of school districts, there shall be included for each such appropriation, the apportionment thereof to each individual school district in the state. Section 2 is the effective date.

Justification

Prospective school aid runs are vitally important to the formulation of school budgets. Unfortunately, the release of these projections is not mandated by law. Their release as a part of the Executive Budget Proposal has served as an acknowledgment of the complex and time-consuming nature of school budgets. Due to the fact that they are not mandated by law, the governor has the ability to unfairly withhold them from his/her budget proposal and subject schools to a shorter amount of time in which to formulate a budget to be presented and voted upon by their district's voters. This bill would mandate the release of school aid run projections as a part of the executive's budget proposal. This would assure superintendents, school boards, teachers and parents of the projections that they rely on the state to provide to them to develop their school's budget.

Legislative history

2016 - S.4603 Passed Senate/A.6964 - Ways and Means

Fiscal implications

To be determined.

Effective date

Immediate.

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