STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 160 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 funds for teacher resource and computer training centers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 316 of the education law, as 2 amended by section 4-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 8. Funds provided each school year to school districts and boards of 5 cooperative educational services by the commissioner to plan, establish 6 and operate teacher resource and computer training centers shall not 7 exceed two million dollars per center, except that for the city school 8 district for the city of New York such [center] funding limitation shall 9 not [exceed sixteen million eight hundred thousand dollars] apply; and 10 provided further that each approved center shall receive not less than 11 twenty thousand dollars. In any year in which there is a statewide 12 increase in funding for teacher resource and computer training centers, 13 such increase shall be distributed proportionately among existing 14 centers that have satisfactorily fulfilled the requirements of such 15 centers' current grant. A portion of the increase shall be made avail- 16 able to new applicants to establish new teacher centers, and to current 17 teacher centers to develop and implement regional and statewide teacher 18 center activities. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02110-01-7