A 2413: Establishes that tuition rates shall grow by a percentage equal to the general support for public schools appropriation provided to schools.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2413 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RA, SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the approval of reimbursement methodologies for tuition and maintenance The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 c. The director of the budget, in consultation with the commissioner 5 of education, the commissioner of social services, and any other state 6 agency or other source the director may deem appropriate, shall approve 7 reimbursement methodologies for tuition and for maintenance. Any modifi- 8 cation in the approved reimbursement methodologies shall be subject to 9 the approval of the director of the budget. [Notwithstanding any other 10 provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, tuition rates 11 established for the nineteen hundred ninety-five--ninety-six school year 12 shall exclude the two percent cost of living adjustment authorized in 13 rates established for the nineteen hundred ninety-four--ninety-five 14 school year] Tuition rates approved for the two thousand twenty-five-- 15 two thousand twenty-six school year and thereafter for special services 16 or programs provided to school-age students by approved private residen- 17 tial or non-residential schools for the education of students with disa- 18 bilities that are located within the state and by special act school 19 districts shall grow by a percentage equal to the general support for 20 public schools appropriation provided to schools. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05677-01-5