A 6791: Provides for the time period bases and manner of payment of employment preparation education apportionment state aid.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6791 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the employment prepa- ration education apportionment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph e of subdivision 11 of section 3602 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by section 15 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws 3 of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 4 e. Employment preparation education apportionment. In addition to any 5 other aid payable under this section, the apportionment pursuant to this 6 subdivision shall be the product obtained when the employment prepara- 7 tion education hours are multiplied by the aid per contact hour which 8 shall equal the product of the employment preparation program aid ceil- 9 ing and the employment preparation education aid ratio computed to two 10 decimals, rounded, as calculated based on data on file with the commis- 11 sioner on May fifteenth of the base year. Notwithstanding the provisions 12 of section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this part, the payment of such 13 apportionment shall be based upon reports required by the commissioner 14 for the periods ending December thirty-first, March thirty-first and 15 June thirtieth of each school year; payments for the first reporting 16 period shall be made after April first, based on claims on file by March 17 first, provided that the total of all such payments shall not exceed 18 twenty-five percent of the amount for such school year, with the 19 approved amount of such claims reduced on a pro rata basis if necessary; 20 payments for the second reporting period shall be made after July first, 21 based on claims on file by May thirty-first, provided that the total of 22 all such payments shall not exceed seventy-five percent of the amount of 23 such claims including the remainder of any claims due for the first 24 period, with the approved amount of such claims reduced on a pro rata 25 share if necessary; the remainder of any payments due for the first EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01531-01-5 
 A. 6791 2 1 [period] and second periods plus any payments due for the rest of the 2 school year shall be paid after October first, based on claims on file 3 by September fifteenth, provided that the total of such payments shall 4 not exceed the total amount of ninety-six million dollars ($96,000,000) 5 for such school year, with the approved amount of such claims reduced on 6 a pro rata basis if necessary, provided that the total of such payment 7 for services provided to persons who received a high school diploma or a 8 high school equivalency diploma recognized by New York state shall not 9 exceed the total amount set aside for such purpose pursuant to paragraph 10 a-one of this subdivision in any such school year, with the approved 11 amount of such claims reduced on a pro rata basis if necessary; and aid 12 paid pursuant to this paragraph shall not be included in the computation 13 of the district expenditure need as defined in such section thirty-six 14 hundred nine-a of this part. The employment preparation education appor- 15 tionment for the city school district of the city of New York shall be 16 computed only for the city as a whole. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.