New York A 286: Enacts the safe schools by design act

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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286--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 4, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "safe
schools by design act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "safe schools by design act".
3 § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section 3602 of the
4 education law, as amended by chapter 355 of the laws of 2016, is amended
5 to read as follows:
6 Any apportionment to a school district pursuant to this subdivision
7 shall be based upon base year approved expenditures for capital outlays
8 incurred prior to July first, two thousand one from its general fund,
9 capital fund or reserved funds and current year approved expenditures
10 for debt service, including debt service for refunding bond issues
11 eligible for an apportionment pursuant to paragraph g of this subdivi-
12 sion and lease or other annual payments to the New York city educational
13 construction fund created by article ten of this chapter or the city of
14 Yonkers educational construction fund created by article ten-B of this
15 chapter which have been pledged to secure the payment of bonds, notes or
16 other obligations issued by the fund to finance the construction, acqui-
17 sition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of the school
18 portion of combined occupancy structures, or for lease or other annual
19 payments to the New York state urban development corporation created by
20 chapter one hundred seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-
21 eight, pursuant to agreement between such school district and such
22 corporation relating to the construction, acquisition, reconstruction,
23 rehabilitation or improvement of any school building, or for annual
24 payments to the dormitory authority pursuant to any lease, sublease or
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 other agreement relating to the financing, refinancing, acquisition,
2 design, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement,
3 furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise provide for school district
4 capital facilities or school district capital equipment made under the
5 provisions of section sixteen hundred eighty of the public authorities
6 law, or for annual payments pursuant to any lease, sublease or other
7 agreement relating to the financing, refinancing, acquisition, design,
8 construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing
9 and equipping of, or otherwise providing for educational facilities of a
10 city school district under the provisions of section sixteen of chapter
11 six hundred five of the laws of two thousand, or for payments, pursuant
12 to any assignment authorized by section twenty-seven hundred ninety-
13 nine-tt of the public authorities law, of debt service in furtherance of
14 funding the five-year educational facilities capital plan of the city of
15 New York school district or related debt service costs and expenses as
16 set forth in such section, for annual payments pursuant to any lease,
17 sublease or other agreement relating to the financing, refinancing,
18 design, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and
19 equipping of, or otherwise providing for projects authorized pursuant to
20 the city of Syracuse and the board of education of the city school
21 district of the city of Syracuse cooperative school reconstruction act,
22 for annual payments pursuant to any lease, sublease or other agreement
23 relating to the financing, refinancing, design, reconstruction, rehabil-
24 itation, improvement, furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise provid-
25 ing for projects authorized pursuant to the city of Rochester and the
26 board of education of the city school district of the city of Rochester
27 school facilities modernization program act, for annual payments pursu-
28 ant to any lease, sublease or other agreement relating to the financing,
29 refinancing, design, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
30 improvement, furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise providing for
31 projects authorized pursuant to the Yonkers city school district facili-
32 ties modernization program act, or for lease, lease-purchase or other
33 annual payments to another school district or person, partnership or
34 corporation pursuant to an agreement made under the provisions of
35 section four hundred three-b, subdivision eight of section twenty-five
36 hundred three, or subdivision six of section twenty-five hundred fifty-
37 four of this chapt