Senate and Assembly One-House Budgets


Both the state Senate and Assembly released their one-house budget proposals late Monday night into this morning. The houses are expected to adopt their respective proposals, as formal responses to the executive budget proposal, this week. 

Senate one-house budget highlights include:

  • Increasing the minimum guaranteed Foundation Aid increase from 2% to 3%
  • Adjusting the regional cost index used in the Foundation Aid formula for the Hudson Valley and New York City regions
  • Increasing the capital outlay exception threshold for building aid from $100k to $250k
  • Funding universal school meals for all schools
  • Increasing the BOCES aidable salary cap from $30,000 to $60,000 from 2026-27 to 2028-29
  • Expanding grade coverage and increasing per pupil allocations for special services aid for CTE in non-component districts
  • Increasing per-pupil funding for pre-k
  • Expanding eligibility for Medicaid reimbursement to all early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment for all Medicaid-eligible students 
  • Increasing funding for library materials aid
  • Allocating $19 million to pay down the prior aid claim queue
  • Making multiple adjustments to the zero-emission bus requirement, including granting the SED Commissioner the authority to approve an unlimited number of implementation delays, requiring independent battery range estimates and providing transportation aid for school district electrification plans
  • Adjusting the executive’s proposed student smart device ban to provide school districts and BOCES policy authority over the use of such devices during non-instructional time
  • Extending the retiree income earning cap waiver for school district and BOCES employees for two additional years (until 2027), and permanently increasing the cap for all public employees from $35k to $65k beginning in 2025
  • Requiring all industrial development agencies (IDA) to include school district representation on their boards
  • Allocating $105 million in community schools categorical aid

Assembly one-house budget highlights include:

  • Increasing the minimum guaranteed Foundation Aid increase from 2% to 2.9%
  • Making multiple adjustments to the Foundation Aid formula, including increasing the weighting for English language learners, revising the regional cost index for many regions and phasing-out the Income Wealth Index (IWI) floor
  • Funding universal school meals for all schools
  • Increasing the BOCES aidable salary cap from $30,000 to $60,000 from 2025-26 to 2027-28
  • Expanding grade coverage for special services aid for CTE in non-component districts
  • Increasing overall and per-pupil funding for pre-k
  • Increasing funding for library materials aid
  • Rejecting the executive’s proposed student smart device ban (Assembly Education Chair Michael Benedetto recently introduced a stand-alone bill on the subject)
  • Allocating $19 million to pay down the prior aid claim queue

NYSSBA Governmental Relations will provide a more comprehensive summary of the one-house budget proposals in the days to come. 

2025 Resolutions Survey

The 2025 Resolutions Survey was emailed last week to all NYSSBA members. This important survey is designed to gauge member sentiment on a series of important current or potential education issues and is a critical part of your membership. Responses to the survey may be used to develop resolutions for consideration by the delegates at NYSSBA’s Annual Business Meeting, which will be held virtually on Thursday, October 16. Survey results will be included in the 2025 Resolution Toolkit and will be sent to the full membership in mid-April. The survey will be open through March 21.




Back to top