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Assembly Bill A9399

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes the withdrawal of funds from the employee benefit liability reserve fund

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2011-A9399 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง6-p, Gen Muni L

2011-A9399 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the withdrawal of funds from the employee benefit liability reserve fund.

2011-A9399 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  9399

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 24, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing
  the withdrawal of funds from the employee  benefit  accrued  liability
  reserve fund

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 6-p of the general  municipal  law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
  12.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE GOVERN-
ING BOARD OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY, DURING THE TWO THOUSAND  TWELVE--TWO
THOUSAND  THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR, AUTHORIZE A WITHDRAWAL FROM THIS FUND IN
AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THE LESSER OF: (A) THE DOLLAR  VALUE  OF  EXCESS
FUNDING IN THE FUND AS DETERMINED BY THE COMPTROLLER PURSUANT TO SECTION
THIRTY-THREE  OF THIS CHAPTER OR (B) THE AMOUNT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S
GAP ELIMINATION ADJUSTMENT AS CALCULATED BY THE COMMISSIONER  OF  EDUCA-
TION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SEVENTEEN OF SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED TWO
OF  THE  EDUCATION LAW. FUNDS WITHDRAWN PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION MAY
ONLY BE USED FOR THE  PURPOSE  OF  MAINTAINING  EDUCATIONAL  PROGRAMMING
DURING  THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE--TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR WHICH
OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN REDUCED AS A RESULT OF  SUCH  GAP  ELIMINATION
ADJUSTMENT.  GOVERNING BOARDS WHICH MAKE SUCH A WITHDRAWAL SHALL SUBMIT,
IN A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, RELEVANT INFORMA-
TION ABOUT THE WITHDRAWAL, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,
THE  AMOUNT  OF  SUCH WITHDRAWAL, THE DATE OF WITHDRAWAL, AND THE USE OF
SUCH WITHDRAWN FUNDS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14781-01-2


              

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