STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10274 IN ASSEMBLY May 16, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Eichenstein) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to transportation aid The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3627 of the education law, as 2 amended by section 13-a of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any 5 expenditures for transportation provided pursuant to this section in the 6 two thousand thirteen--two thousand fourteen school year and thereafter 7 and otherwise eligible for transportation aid pursuant to subdivision 8 seven of section thirty-six hundred two of this article shall be consid- 9 ered approved transportation expenses eligible for transportation aid, 10 provided further that for the two thousand thirteen--two thousand four- 11 teen school year such aid shall be limited to eight million one hundred 12 thousand dollars and for the two thousand fourteen--two thousand fifteen 13 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twelve million six 14 hundred thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand 15 fifteen--two thousand sixteen school year through two thousand eigh- 16 teen--two thousand nineteen school year such aid shall be limited to the 17 sum of eighteen million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the 18 base amount and for the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty 19 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of nineteen million 20 three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the 21 two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one school year such aid shall 22 be limited to the sum of nineteen million eight hundred fifty thousand 23 dollars plus the base amount and for the two thousand twenty-two--two 24 thousand twenty-three school year such aid shall be limited to the sum 25 of twenty-two million three hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base 26 amount and for the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand twenty-four 27 school year such aid shall be limited to the sum of twenty-four million 28 eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the 29 two thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five school year [~~and~~ EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15539-01-4

A. 10274 2 1 ~~thereafter~~] such aid shall be limited to the sum of twenty-nine million 2 eight hundred fifty thousand dollars plus the base amount and for the 3 two thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school year and there- 4 after such aid shall be limited to the maximum amount of aid from the 5 base year plus the product of (a) the maximum amount of aid under this 6 subdivision from the base year, multiplied by (b) the product of two and 7 one-half, further multiplied by (c) the positive difference of the 8 personal income growth index as defined in paragraph bb of subdivision 9 one of section thirty-six hundred two of this article less one. For 10 purposes of this subdivision, "base amount" means the amount of trans- 11 portation aid paid to the school district for expenditures incurred in 12 the two thousand twelve--two thousand thirteen school year for transpor- 13 tation that would have been eligible for aid pursuant to this section 14 had this section been in effect in such school year, except that subdi- 15 vision six of this section shall be deemed not to have been in effect. 16 And provided further that the school district shall continue to annually 17 expend for the transportation described in subdivision one of this 18 section at least the expenditures used for the base amount. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025; provided, however, that 20 if section 13-a of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024 shall not 21 have taken effect on or before such date then section one of this act 22 shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as such chap- 23 ter of the laws of 2024, takes effect.

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