Senate Bill S2065A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes school districts to establish an insurance reserve fund

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S2065 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-n, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S2067
2023-2024: S4489

2021-S2065 - Summary

Authorizes school districts to establish an insurance reserve fund in an amount and manner determined by a qualified and independent actuary certified by the American Academy of Actuaries to be reasonable and necessary.

2021-S2065 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2065 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2065
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  JORDAN,  AKSHAR, BOYLE, GALLIVAN, TEDISCO -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee on Local Government
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing
   all school districts to establish reserve funds

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
 al  municipal  law,  as  amended  by chapter 246 of the laws of 2020, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) The governing board of any municipal corporation may  establish  a
 reserve  fund  to  be  known  as  the  insurance  reserve fund. Upon the
 creation of the fund, the municipality may make  expenditures  from  the
 fund  for  any  loss,  claim, action or judgment for which the municipal
 corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
 except those kinds of risks for which insurance is  authorized  pursuant
 to  paragraph  one,  two,  three, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
 twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
 hundred thirteen of the insurance  law,  or  for  payments  in  lieu  of
 contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
 that  no  municipality  shall make an expenditure from such fund for any
 loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation  has
 established  a  reserve fund under any other provision of law; provided,
 further that the Scarsdale union free school  district,  the  Mamaroneck
 union free school district, the Minisink Valley central school district,
 the  Vernon  Verona  Sherrill  central  school district, the Ithaca city
 school  district,  the  Kenmore-Town  of  Tonawanda  union  free  school
 district,  the Bedford central school district, the Grand Island central
 school district, the Tonawanda city school district, the  enlarged  city
 school district of Middletown, the Frontier central school district, and
 the  Binghamton  city  school district AND ANY OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT may
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2021-S2065A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-n, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S2067
2023-2024: S4489

2021-S2065A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes school districts to establish an insurance reserve fund in an amount and manner determined by a qualified and independent actuary certified by the American Academy of Actuaries to be reasonable and necessary.

2021-S2065A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2065A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2065--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  JORDAN,  AKSHAR, BOYLE, GALLIVAN, TEDISCO -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee on Local Government -- recommitted to the Committee on Local
   Government  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  authorizing
   all school districts to establish reserve funds
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
 al municipal law, as separately amended by chapters 212, 215,  290,  353
 and 354 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  The  governing board of any municipal corporation may establish a
 reserve fund to be  known  as  the  insurance  reserve  fund.  Upon  the
 creation  of  the  fund, the municipality may make expenditures from the
 fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment  for  which  the  municipal
 corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
 except  those  kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized pursuant
 to paragraph one, two, three,  fifteen,  sixteen,  seventeen,  eighteen,
 twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
 hundred  thirteen  of  the  insurance  law,  or  for payments in lieu of
 contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
 that no municipality shall make an expenditure from such  fund  for  any
 loss,  claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation has
 established a reserve fund under any other provision of  law;  provided,
 further  that  the  Scarsdale union free school district, the Mamaroneck
 union free school district, the Minisink Valley central school district,
 the Vernon Verona Sherrill central  school  district,  the  Ithaca  city
 school  district,  the  Kenmore-Town  of  Tonawanda  union  free  school
 district, the Bedford central school district, the Grand Island  central
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00809-02-2
              

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