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S00325 Summary:

BILL NOS00325 

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Provides for accelerated payments to the city school district of the city of Mount Vernon.

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BILL NOS00325 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 325

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT providing for accelerated payments to the city school district of
 the city of Mount Vernon

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

 1 Section 1. In order to avoid endangering the fiscal stability of the
 2 Mount Vernon city school district, certain apportionments payable to the
 3 city school district of the city of Mount Vernon shall be paid on an
 4 accelerated schedule as follows:
 5 a. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, for aid payable in
 6 the school years 2025-2026 through 2052-2053 upon application to the
 7 commissioner of education submitted not sooner than the second Monday in
 8 June of the school year in which such aid is payable and not later than
 9 the Friday following the third Monday in June of the school year in
 10 which such aid is payable, or ten days after the effective date of this
 11 act, whichever shall be later, the Mount Vernon city school district
 12 shall be eligible to receive an apportionment pursuant to this act in an
 13 amount equal to the product of five million dollars ($5,000,000) and the
 14 quotient of the positive difference of thirty minus the number of school
 15 years elapsed since the 2025-2026 school year divided by thirty.
 16 (2) Funds apportioned pursuant to this subdivision shall be used for
 17 services and expenses of the city school district of the city of Mount
 18 Vernon and shall be applied to support of its educational programs and
 19 any liability incurred by such city school district in carrying out its
 20 functions and responsibilities under the education law.
 21 b. The claim for an apportionment to be paid to the Mount Vernon city
 22 school district pursuant to subdivision a of this section shall be
 23 submitted to the commissioner of education on a form prescribed for such
 24 purpose, and shall be payable upon determination by such commissioner

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00790-01-5

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 1 that the form has been submitted as prescribed and that the school
 2 district has complied with the reporting requirements of this act. For
 3 each school year in which application is made pursuant to subdivision a
 4 of this section, such approved amount shall be payable on or before June
 5 thirtieth of such school year upon the audit and warrant of the state
 6 comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of
 7 education in the manner prescribed by law from moneys in the state
 8 lottery fund appropriated for general support of public schools and from
 9 the general fund to the extent that the amount paid to the Mount Vernon
 10 city school district pursuant to this subdivision and subdivision a of
 11 this section exceeds the amount of the lottery apportionment, if any,
 12 due such school district pursuant to subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of
 13 subdivision 1 of section 3609-a of the education law on or before
 14 September first of such school year.
 15 c. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3609-a of the education
 16 law, an amount equal to the amount paid to the Mount Vernon city school
 17 district during the base year pursuant to subdivisions a and b of this
 18 section shall first be deducted from payments due during the current
 19 school year pursuant to subparagraphs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of paragraph a of
 20 subdivision 1 of section 3609-a of the education law in the following
 21 order: the lottery apportion