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A01625 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
 submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)



 
BILL NUMBER: A1625B
 
SPONSOR: Zebrowski (MS)

 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law, in relation to full
day kindergarten
 
 
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:
 
This bill expands the full day kindergarten conversion aid to a five
year transition program.
 
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
 
Section one of the bill amends section 3602 of the education law as it
relates to expanded full day kindergarten conversion aid. The enhanced
incentive will provide school districts that have half day or no kinder-
garten programs in the 2017-18 school year with funding over a five year
period to transition to full day. The aid would be equal to the current
conversion aid in the first year, 80% of the aid in year two, 60% of the
aid in year three, 40% of the aid in year four and 20% of the aid in
year five.
 
Section two of the bill relates to the effective date.
 
 
JUSTIFICATION:
 
There are only a handful of school districts in New York that have half
day kindergarten programs. This legislation would assist those school
districts in transitioning to full day kindergarten by expanding the
current incentive aid program to be spread out over five years. This
bill will help New York move closer to providing full day kindergarten
to all students in the State regardless of where they live.
 
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
 
A.8692-B of 2015-2016.
 
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE:
 
It is estimated that the legislation will cost an estimated $25 million
if all eligible school districts utilized the transition aid which
includes the estimated $8 million under the current conversion formula.
 
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

A01625 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1625--B
                                                                Cal. No. 122
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ZEBROWSKI, SKOUFIS, JAFFEE, McDONALD, BRONSON,
          WOERNER, RAIA, RA,  ERRIGO,  SEPULVEDA,  MORELLE,  BUCHWALD,  HYNDMAN,
          PELLEGRINO  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, McDONOUGH,
          WALSH -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Education  --
          reported  and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- ordered to a third reading, amended  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to full day kindergarten
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 3602  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  9  of part A of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    9. Aid for conversion to full day kindergarten. School  districts  may
     5  make  available  full day kindergarten programs for all children wishing
     6  to attend such programs.
     7    a. For aid payable in the [two thousand seven--two thousand eight] two
     8  thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen  school  year  and  thereafter,
     9  school  districts  which  provided any half-day kindergarten programs or
    10  had no kindergarten programs in the [nineteen hundred  ninety-six--nine-
    11  ty-seven] two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school year [and
    12  in the base year], and which have not received an apportionment pursuant
    13  to  this  paragraph in any prior school year, shall be eligible for five
    14  year transition aid.  The aid in the first year of full day kindergarten
    15  transition is equal to the product of the district's selected foundation
    16  aid calculated pursuant to subdivision four of this  section  multiplied
    17  by  the  positive  difference  resulting  when the full day kindergarten
    18  enrollment of children attending programs in the district  in  the  base
    19  year is subtracted from such enrollment in the current year. The remain-
    20  ing transition aid shall be apportioned as follows:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02022-04-8
        A. 1625--B                          2
 
     1    i.  Aid  in year two shall equal eighty percent of the aid received by
     2  the district in year one.
     3    ii.  Aid  in year three shall equal sixty  percent of the aid received
     4  by the district in year one.
     5    iii. Aid in year four shall equal forty percent of the aid received by
     6  the district in year one.
     7    iv. Aid in year five shall equal twenty percent of the aid received by
     8  the district in year one.
     9    b. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this  subdivision,
    10  school  districts  that  have received an apportionment pursuant to this
    11  subdivision in a prior school year shall be eligible for  an  apportion-
    12  ment where the department grants a waiver upon cause satisfactory to the
    13  department,  including but not limited to, satisfactory demonstration of
    14  significant economic hardship that would impact  the  school  district's
    15  ability  to  provide  full  day kindergarten for all children wishing to
    16  attend such programs. No school district may be granted  such  a  waiver
    17  more than once.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.