S7788 • 2025

Permits the establishment of reserve funds for costs relating to special education

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Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Permits the establishment of reserve funds for costs relating to special education

Permits the establishment of reserve funds for costs relating to special education Permits the establishment of reserve funds for unanticipated costs relating to special education, provided that the amount in such fund shall not exceed four percent of the district's current school year budget.

What This Bill Does

Permits the establishment of reserve funds for costs relating to special education Permits the establishment of reserve funds for unanticipated costs relating to special education, provided that the amount in such fund shall not exceed four percent of the district's current school year budget.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-07 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-06 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-05 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.905
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-06-04 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-29 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-28 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1403
2025-05-06 Senate
REFERRED TO EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Permits the establishment of reserve funds for costs relating to special education
Permits the establishment of reserve funds for unanticipated costs relating to special education, provided that the amount in such fund shall not exceed four percent of the district's current school year budget.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          7788

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       May 6, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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  establishing  reserve
          funds for costs relating to special education

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3-a of section 3651 of the  education  law,  as
     2  added  by chapter 588 of the laws of 1988, is amended and a new subdivi-
     3  sion 1-c is added to read as follows:
     4    1-C. NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  ANY  SCHOOL
     5  DISTRICT MAY ESTABLISH A RESERVE FUND FOR PAYMENT OF UNANTICIPATED COSTS
     6  RELATED  TO  PROVIDING  SPECIAL EDUCATION TO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES,
     7  PROVIDED THAT THE AMOUNT IN SUCH FUND SHALL NOT EXCEED FOUR  PERCENT  OF
     8  THE  DISTRICT'S  CURRENT  SCHOOL  YEAR  BUDGET.  SPECIAL  EDUCATION  AND
     9  STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS IN SUBDIVISION
    10  ONE OF SECTION FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED  ONE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER.  SUCH
    11  RESERVE  FUND SHALL BE ESTABLISHED ONLY BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE QUALI-
    12  FIED VOTERS OF THE DISTRICT.
    13    3-a. Notwithstanding the  provisions  of  subdivision  three  of  this
    14  section, any school district which establishes a reserve fund in accord-
    15  ance  with  subdivision one-a OR ONE-C of this section may make expendi-
    16  tures from such fund for the  purposes  specified  in  such  subdivision
    17  without authorization of the voters.
    18    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    19  the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11541-02-5