New York S 3589: Enacts the "education funding census update act"

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S03589 Summary:

BILL NOS03589 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02621

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SPONSORJACKSON

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COSPNSRCOMRIE, HELMING, MYRIE

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3602, Ed L

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Enacts the "education funding census update act"; updates the census numbers used to calculate certain education funding.

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BILL NOS03589 

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01/28/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3589

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 28, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, COMRIE, HELMING, MYRIE -- 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 updating the census
 numbers used to calculate certain education funding

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "education
 2 funding census update act".
 3 § 2. Subparagraphs (ii), (iii) and (iv) of paragraph q of subdivision
 4 1 of section 3602 of the education law, as amended by section 16 of part
 5 YYY of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, are amended to read as follows:
 6 (ii) "Census count" shall mean the product of the public school
 7 enrollment of the school district on the date enrollment was counted in
 8 accordance with this subdivision for the base year multiplied by the
 9 census [2000] poverty rate.
 10 (iii) "Census [2000] poverty rate" shall mean the quotient of the
 11 number of persons aged five to seventeen within the school district,
 12 based on the most recent federal decennial census conducted [in the year
 13 two thousand] as tabulated by the National Center on Education Statis-
 14 tics, who were enrolled in public schools and whose families had incomes
 15 below the poverty level, divided by the total number of persons aged
 16 five to seventeen within the school district, based on such decennial
 17 census, who were enrolled in public schools, computed to four decimals
 18 without rounding.
 19 (iv) "Selected poverty rate" shall mean: (A) for school districts with
 20 high concentrations of nonpublic students, the greater of the census
 21 [2000] poverty rate or the three-year average small area income and
 22 poverty estimate poverty rate; and (B) for all other school districts,
 23 the three-year average small area income and poverty estimate poverty
 24 rate. For the purposes of this subparagraph, "three-year average small

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01193-01-5

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 1 area income and poverty estimate poverty rate" shall equal the quotient
 2 of (1) the sum of the number of persons aged five to seventeen within
 3 the school district, based on the small area income and poverty esti-
 4 mates produced by the United States census bureau, whose families had
 5 incomes below the poverty level for the year two years prior to the year
 6 in which the base year began, plus such number for the year three years
 7 prior to the year in which the base year began, plus such number for the
 8 year four years prior to the year in which the base year began, divided
 9 by (2) the sum of the total number of persons aged five to seventeen
 10 within the school district, based on such census bureau estimates, for
 11 the year two years prior to the year in which the base year began, plus
 12 such total number for the year three years prior to the year in which
 13 the base year began, plus such total number for the year four years
 14 prior to the year in which the base year began, computed to four deci-
 15 mals without rounding.
 16 § 3. Clause 1 of subparagraph (G) of paragraph b of subdivision 17 of
 17 section 3602 of the education law, as added by section 37 of part A of
 18 chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
 19 (1) in the case of a district determined to be a high-need school
 20 district pursuant to clause (c) of subparagraph two of paragraph c of
 21 subdivision six of