S 8139: Relates to the assessment of extraordinary needs count for purposes of the apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers; defines count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8139 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LIU -- 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 the extraordinary needs count for purposes of the apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph s of subdivision 1 of section 3602 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by section 4-a of part A of chapter 56 of the laws 3 of 2025, is amended to read as follows: 4 s. "Extraordinary needs count" shall mean the sum of the product of 5 the English language learner count multiplied by the ELL weight, plus, 6 the poverty count [and], the sparsity count, and the count of homeless 7 children and children or youth in foster care, provided that the 'ELL 8 weight' shall be five tenths (0.50) for the two thousand twenty-four-- 9 two thousand twenty-five school year and prior, and shall be equal to 10 fifty-three hundredths (0.53) in the two thousand twenty-five--two thou- 11 sand twenty-six school year and thereafter. 12 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3602 of the education law is amended by 13 adding a new paragraph nn to read as follows: 14 nn. "Count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care" 15 shall mean the sum of the product of students identified at any point in 16 the most recently completed school year as homeless children, as defined 17 by section thirty-two hundred nine of this chapter, or children or youth 18 in foster care, as defined by section thirty-two hundred forty-four of 19 this chapter, multiplied by thirty-two percent. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025; provided, however, that 21 if section 4-a of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2025 shall not 22 have taken effect on or before such date then section one of this act 23 shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as such part 24 of such chapter of the laws of 2025, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13125-01-5