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S00178 Summary:

BILL NOS00178 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02717

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SPONSORPERSAUD

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COSPNSRMYRIE, RHOADS, RYAN C

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §409-o, Ed L

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Establishes a school air conditioning system grant program to provide schools with funding to install air conditioning systems in certain areas; makes an appropriation therefor.

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BILL NOS00178 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 178

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a school
 air conditioning system grant program; and making an appropriation
 therefor

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

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 409-o
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 409-o. School air conditioning system grant program. 1. For purposes
 4 of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 5 (a) "Covered area" shall include, but not be limited to, classrooms,
 6 cafeterias, gymnasiums, libraries, and other areas in which students
 7 congregate for educational purposes.
 8 (b) "School" shall include, but not be limited to, a school district,
 9 public school, board of cooperative educational services, special act
 10 school district as defined in section four thousand one of this chapter,
 11 approved preschool special education program pursuant to section forty-
 12 four hundred ten of this chapter, schools and programs authorized by
 13 articles eighty-one and eighty-nine of this chapter, or any public,
 14 private or charter primary or secondary education school.
 15 2. There is hereby established within the department a school air
 16 conditioning system grant program. The purpose of the program shall be
 17 to provide grants from amounts appropriated therefor to schools to
 18 provide schools with funding for the installation of air conditioning
 19 systems in covered areas. Grants shall be made with priority given to
 20 schools that currently have no air conditioning systems in any covered
 21 areas.
 22 § 2. The sum of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) is hereby
 23 appropriated to the department of education out of any moneys in the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00865-01-5

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 1 state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the local assistance
 2 account, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available for
 3 the sole purpose of administering a school air conditioning system grant
 4 program to assist schools with installing air conditioning systems in
 5 covered areas, pursuant to section one of this act. Such moneys shall be
 6 payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certi-
 7 fied or approved by the commissioner of education in the manner
 8 prescribed by law.
 9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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