A 466: Increases the per student rate of empire state after school program and advantage after school program grants; requires future per student rates to be modified accounting for any minimum wage adjustments.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 466 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to increasing the per student rate of empire state after school program and advantage after school program grants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 501-i 2 to read as follows: 3 § 501-i. Empire state after school program and advantage after school 4 program grants. Empire state after school program grants and advantage 5 after school program grants awarded on or after August first, two thou- 6 sand twenty-five shall be provided at a rate of no less than four thou- 7 sand three hundred dollars per approved student. The commissioner of the 8 office of children and family services, in conjunction with the director 9 of the budget, shall, upon the completion of the full term of the empire 10 state after school program and the advantage after school program, modi- 11 fy the amount of money per approved student to be awarded to grant 12 applicants. Such modification shall account for any minimum wage 13 adjustments. The commissioner shall promulgate any rules or regulations 14 necessary to ensure grantees shall serve at least the same number of 15 students in any year that the rate per approved student increases. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01600-01-5