S4449 • 2025

Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments

Education

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Robert Jackson
Last action: 2026-05-20
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments

Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments.

What This Bill Does

Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments.

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Bill History

2026-05-20 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
2026-05-20 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 4449A
2026-05-19 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION
2025-02-05 Senate
REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments
Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          4449

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 5, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. JACKSON, CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  New  York  City
          Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to making a city school
          district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible
          for transitional aid for charter school payments

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 41 of section 3602 of
     2  the education law, as amended by section 20 of part B of chapter  57  of
     3  the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    In addition to any other apportionment under this section, for the two
     5  thousand  seven--two thousand eight school year and thereafter, a school
     6  district [other than a city school district in a  city  having  a  popu-
     7  lation of one million or more] shall be eligible for an apportionment in
     8  an amount equal to the sum of
     9    §  2.  This act shall take effect April 1, 2025; provided, however, if
    10  this act shall have become a law after such date it  shall  take  effect
    11  immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on
    12  and after April 1, 2025.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08951-01-5