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AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to contracts for excellence, foundation aid, and to apportioning aid for universal prekindergarten; to amend chapter 756 of the laws of 1992 relating to funding a program for work force education conducted by the consortium for worker education in New York city, in relation to reimbursement for the 2026-2027 school year and the maximum contract hours, withholding a portion of employment preparation education aid, and the effectiveness thereof; to amend the education law, in relation to the use of apportionments for the EXCEL program; to amend part I of chapter 61 of the laws of 2006 amending the education law and the public authorities law relating to expanding our children's education and learning, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; to amend the education law, in relation to maximum class sizes for special classes for certain students with disabilities; to amend chapter 82 of the laws of 1995 amending the education law and other laws relating to state aid to school districts and the appropriation of funds for the support of government, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; providing for special apportionment for salary expenses; providing for special apportionment for public pension accruals; providing for set-asides from the state funds which certain districts are receiving from the total foundation aid; providing for support of public libraries; and to repeal certain provisions of the education law relating to the statewide universal full-day prekindergarten program (Part A); to amend the education law, in relation to schools, school aid and the education of children; to amend chapter 537 of the laws of 1976 relating to paid, free and reduced price breakfast for eligible pupils in certain school districts, in relation to authorizing school food authorities to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast or snack programs to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast and lunch service programs; to amend chapter 507 of the laws of 1974 relating to providing for the apportionment of state monies to certain nonpublic schools, to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with certain state requirements for the administration of state testing and evaluation programs and for participation in state programs for the reporting of basic educational data, in relation to expanding qualifying schools to be located statewide; to amend chapter 18 of the laws of 2020 authorizing the commissioner of education to appoint a monitor to oversee the Wyandanch union free school district and establishing the powers and duties of such monitor, in relation to establishing a monitor team; to amend chapter 121 of the laws of 1996 authorizing the Roosevelt union free school district to finance deficits by the issuance of serial bonds, in relation to the apportionment amount for such school district; to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the artificial intelligence literacy digital equity competitive grant program; and to repeal paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 3635 of the education law, relating to providing transportation for students attending a universal pre-kindergarten program (Part A-1); to amend the education law, in relation to evidence-based mathematics instruction (Part B); to amend the education law, in relation to eligibility for the New York opportunity promise scholarship (Part C); to amend the education law, in relation to certificate of residence policies for community colleges (Part D); to amend the education law, in relation to tuition rates of non-resident undergraduate and graduate students at the state university of New York and city university of New York (Part E); to amend the education law, in relation to early childhood educator eligibility for the masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program (Part F); to amend the state finance law, in relation to the New York state music grant fund (Part G); to amend the social services law, in relation to child care provider registration and licensing (Part H); to amend the social services law, in relation to the payment of certain expenses by adoptive parents (Part I); to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing body scanner utilization in detention and youth justice facilities (Part J); to amend part N of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020 amending the social services law relating to restructuring financing for residential school placements, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part K); to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the standards of monthly need for aged, blind and disabled persons living in the community (Part L); to utilize reserves in the mortgage insurance fund for various housing purposes (Part M); to amend the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation to the maximum number of land banks that can simultaneously exist in New York state (Part N); to amend the real property tax law, in relation to authorizing a tax abatement for alterations and improvements to multiple dwellings for purposes of preserving habitability in affordable housing (Part O); to amend the penal law, in relation to the aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant (Part P); to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to establishing the New York state first home savings program, which authorizes first time home buyers to establish savings accounts to purchase a home; and to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a personal income tax deduction for deposits into such accounts (Part Q); to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to establishing an affordable independent senior housing assistance program (Part R); to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to increasing the annual amount of loans made to an agricultural producer from the housing development fund (Part S); to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to the mobile and manufactured home replacement program (Part T); to amend the social services law and the mental hygiene law, in relation to the 2-1-1 essential community services hotline system (Part U); to amend the education law, in relation to allowing for students in postsecondary education experience or transition program to receive awards from the tuition assistance program (Part V); to amend the education law, in relation to the New York state district attorney and indigent legal services attorney loan forgiveness program (Part W); to amend the education law, in relation to phasing out certain mandatory university fees for graduate students (Part X); to amend the education law, in relation to the criteria for determining tuition assistance program awards (Part Y); establishing a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations related thereto; and providing for the repeal of such provision upon expiration thereof (Part Z); to amend the social services law, in relation to allowances for the costs of diapers (Part AA); to amend the social services law, in relation to enacting the "shelter arrears eviction forestallment act" to provide emergency assistance for rent or mortgage arrears or other fees for the prevention of eviction (Part BB); to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the youth justice innovation fund (Part CC); to amend the education law, in relation to requiring institutions within the state university of New York and the city university of New York to have at least one vending machine on campus which makes emergency contraception available for purchase (Part DD); to amend the education law, in relation to establishing an emergency aid grant program to allow the state university of New York or the city university of New York to provide emergency aid grants to certain students (Part EE); to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "licensure incentives and fee-support for testing (LIFT) act" (Part FF); to amend the social services law and the state finance law, in relation to establishing a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund (Part GG); to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing a full year youth employment immersion pilot program; and in relation to creating a youth or young adult employment immersion pilot program in three social services districts (Part HH); to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to the "jobs and housing act" (Part II); to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the New York state worker protection and labor law enforcement fund (Part JJ); to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring training to reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace (Part KK); to amend the education law, in relation to providing free SUNY, CUNY and community college tuition to active volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical services providers, and volunteer auxiliary police officers (Part LL); to amend the workers' compensation law and the insurance law, in relation to increasing short-term disability benefits (Part MM); to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the property tax exemption for certain disabled veterans (Part NN); and to amend the education law, in relation to allowing for a modest increase in annual income to not disqualify someone from the excelsior scholarship (Part OO)

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