New York S 1894: Relates to amending the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program subscription amount for regions other than New York city; repealer

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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1894
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 17, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the universal full-day
pre-kindergarten program; and to repeal subdivision 4 of section
3602-ee of such law relating thereto
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 3602-ee of the education law is
2 REPEALED.
3 § 2. Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 3602-ee of the education law, as
4 added by section 1 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, are
5 amended to read as follows:
6 1. The purpose of the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program is
7 to incentivize and fund state-of-the-art innovative pre-kindergarten
8 programs [ ].and to encourage program creativity through competition
9 5. The department shall develop a scoring system, which it shall use
10 to evaluate which applications shall be funded [ ]on a competitive basis
11 based on merit and factors including but not limited to the criteria
12 listed above and student and community need. [Upon review of applica-
13 tions, if the program is oversubscribed in any region or regions of the
14 state, the department shall notify the division of the budget, which
15 shall develop a plan for distribution of available slots within any
16 ] The subscription for the New York city region isoversubscribed region.
17 three hundred million dollars. The subscription for each region of the
18 state other than the New York city region shall be in an amount suffi-
19 The department shallcient to provide slots for all qualifying programs.
20 allocate full-day pre-kindergarten conversion slots and new full-day
21 pre-kindergarten slots based on available funding and shall make
22 payments upon documentation of eligible expenditures in the base year,
23 which shall be limited to the actual number of slots operated and paid
24 on a per-pupil basis pursuant to subdivision fourteen of this section.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
26 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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