New York S 6328: Relates to the allocation of prekindergarten funding to prioritize students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and multilingual learners

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S06328 Summary:

BILL NOS06328 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06583

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SPONSORMARTINEZ

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COSPNSRBYNOE, HARCKHAM

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3602-e, Ed L

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Relates to the allocation of prekindergarten funding to prioritize students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and multilingual learners.

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BILL NOS06328 

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03/10/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6328

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, BYNOE -- 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 allocation of
 prekindergarten funding to prioritize students eligible for free or
 reduced-price lunch and multilingual learners

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

 1 Section 1 Subparagraph (ix) of the opening paragraph of subdivision 10
 2 of section 3602-e of the education law, as amended by section 17-c of
 3 part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended and a new subpara-
 4 graph (x) is added to read as follows:
 5 (ix) for the two thousand twenty-two--two thousand twenty-three school
 6 year and thereafter, each school district shall be eligible to receive a
 7 grant amount equal to the sum of (A) the amount set forth for such
 8 school district as "UNIVERSAL PREKINDERGARTEN ALLOCATION" on the comput-
 9 er file produced by the commissioner in support of the enacted budget
 10 for the prior year excluding amounts subject to section thirty-six
 11 hundred two-ee of this part and further excluding amounts paid pursuant
 12 to subdivision nineteen of this section plus (B) the Full-day 4-Year-Old
 13 Universal Prekindergarten Expansion added pursuant to paragraph e of
 14 subdivision nineteen of this section, provided that such school district
 15 has met all requirements pursuant to this section and such grants shall
 16 be added into a four-year-old grant amount based on the amount each
 17 district was eligible to receive in the base year to serve four-year-old
 18 prekindergarten pupils, plus (C) funds allocated pursuant to a universal
 19 prekindergarten expansion under subdivision twenty of this section as of
 20 the school aid computer listing produced by the commissioner in support
 21 of the enacted budget for the current year, provided that such grant
 22 amounts shall be divided into a four-year-old grant amount based on the
 23 amount each district was eligible to receive in the base year to serve
 24 four-year-old prekindergarten pupils, if any, and a three-year-old grant

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09284-01-5

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 1 amount based on the amount each district was eligible to receive in the
 2 base year to serve three-year-old pupils, if any, and provided further
 3 that the maximum grant shall not exceed the total actual grant expendi-
 4 tures incurred by the school district in the current school year as
 5 approved by the commissioner[.], and
 6 (x) for the two thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six school
 7 year and thereafter and subject to available appropriation, each school
 8 district shall be eligible to receive a grant amount equal to seventeen
 9 thousand five hundred dollars for eligible full-day four-year-old prek-
 10 indergarten pupils. The total allocations for each school district shall
 11 not exceed the amounts they received in the two thousand twenty-four--
 12 two thousand twenty-five school year, unless additional funds are appro-
 13 priated. If such allocation is not sufficient to cover all eligible
 14 full-day four-year-old pre-kindergarten pupils in the district, such
 15 grants shall first be utilized by each school district to serve four-
 16 year-old prekindergarten pupils that are eligible to receive free or
 17 reduced-price lunch or are emergent multilingual language learners. The
 18 dollar amount set forth in