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Assembly Bill A5529

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Limits a school district contingency budget to the lowest proposed defeated budget for the applicable school year

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2011-A5529 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2023, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A9195
2013-2014: A5793
2015-2016: A2216
2017-2018: A5567
2019-2020: A4526

2011-A5529 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits a school district contingency budget to the lowest proposed defeated budget for the applicable school year.

2011-A5529 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5529

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 23, 2011
                               ___________

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 on the first of  May  next  succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04849-01-1

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