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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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Assembly Bill A9195
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
ENGLEBRIGHT
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A9195 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A9195 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:A9195 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to limit- ing the contingency budget of a school district PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This legislation would prevent school districts from proposing a contingency budget that is greater than the lowest proposed budget defeated by the voters of that district. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: The bill amends subsection 4a of section 2023 of the Education Law, adding a new criterion for school districts to follow when proposing a contingency budget. JUSTIFICATION: Every year, school districts across the state (with the exception of large city and special act school districts) put forth budgets for voter approval for the following school year. Should a proposed budget be rejected by voters, the school district may put forth a second budget for voter approval or adopt a contingency budget not subject to voter approval. A district whose second proposed budget is rejected also revert to a contingency budget. Section 2023 of the Education Law requires that contingency budgets conform to certain limitations. Among those limitations are that any spending increase under a contingency budget not exceed the lesser of 4% or the Consumer Price Index x 120 percent. Despite these limitations, it is unclear whether a school district could propose a contingency budget
2009-A9195 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9195 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y October 21, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to limiting the contin- gency budget of a school district THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 2023 of the educa- tion law, as added by section 24 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows: a. The contingency budget shall not result in a percentage increase in total spending over the district's total spending under the school district budget for the prior school year that exceeds the lesser of: (i) the result obtained when one hundred twenty percent is multiplied by the percentage increase in the consumer price index, with the result rounded to two decimal places; [or] (ii) four percent; OR (III) THE DOLLAR AMOUNT OF THE LOWEST, PROPOSED, DEFEATED BUDGET FOR THE APPLICA- BLE SCHOOL YEAR. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE SAME TYPES OF EXPENDITURES EXCLUDED FROM THE CALCULATION OF TOTAL SPENDING FOR THE PROPOSED BUDGET SHALL BE EXCLUDED WHEN CALCULATING THE TOTAL SPENDING IN THE CONTINGENCY BUDGET. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14670-02-9
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