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Assembly Bill A10250

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to payments in lieu of taxes and impacts on certain school districts budgets

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2015-A10250 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2023-a, Ed L

2015-A10250 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that, in certain counties, legislative actions taken by the county assessor or the county legislature shall not in any way modify the amount to be raised by taxes as fixed by the school district pursuant to law.

2015-A10250 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10250

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 18, 2016
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the calculation of the
  tax levy limit in certain counties

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

  Section 1.  Section 2023-a of the education law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
  10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, IN A  COUNTY
OF  A MILLION OR MORE RESIDENTS WITH A SPECIAL ASSESSING UNIT AND HAVING
FIFTY OR MORE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WHERE THE ANNUAL BUDGET SHALL HAVE  BEEN
ADOPTED  AND  THE  AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY TAXES FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR
HAS BEEN FIXED BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT BY CERTIFYING  AND  FILING  TO  SUCH
COUNTY ON OR BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST OF EACH SCHOOL YEAR, THE
AMOUNT  TO  BE RAISED BY TAXES CERTIFIED BY, OR ON BEHALF OF SUCH SCHOOL
DISTRICT OR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, TO THE COUNTY SHALL BE "THE  TOTAL  AMOUNT
OF  TAXES  LEVIED  FOR THE PRIOR SCHOOL YEAR" AS DEFINED IN SUBPARAGRAPH
ONE  OF  PARAGRAPH  A  OF  SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF  THIS  SECTION.    ANY
CORRECTION,  DETERMINATION,  CALCULATION  OR  LEGISLATIVE  ACTION TAKEN,
APPROVED, ADOPTED OR IMPLEMENTED BY THE COUNTY ASSESSOR  OR  THE  COUNTY
LEGISLATURE OF SUCH COUNTY, SHALL NOT IN ANY WAY MODIFY THE AMOUNT TO BE
RAISED  BY  TAXES  AS  FIXED  BY  THE  SCHOOL  DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THIS
SECTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
the  amendments  to  section 2023-a of the education law made by section
one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
deemed repealed therewith.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15230-01-6

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