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Senate Bill S1025

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to excluding expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations

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2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A846
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2 & 2023-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6878, A9502
2019-2020: S4472, A3186
2021-2022: A104
2023-2024: A1527

2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations.

2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1025
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to excluding expenditures
   for school resource officers employed by a municipality  and  assigned
   to a school district from tax levy limitations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph i of subdivision  2  of  section  2023-a  of  the
 education  law  is  amended  by adding a new subparagraph (v) to read as
 follows:
   (V) A TAX LEVY NECESSARY FOR EXPENDITURES TO PAY FOR A SCHOOL RESOURCE
 OFFICER THAT IS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY A MUNICIPALITY AND ASSIGNED TO THE
 SCHOOL DISTRICT PROVIDED THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS IN COMPLIANCE  WITH
 SECTION THIRTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTEEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education
 law,  as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the
 event the trustee, trustees or board of education of a  school  district
 that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that
 will  require  a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for the corre-
 sponding school year, not including any levy necessary  to  support  the
 expenditures  pursuant  to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (V) of para-
 graph i of subdivision two of this section, then such  budget  shall  be
 approved  if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirma-
 tive.
   § 3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
 vision 25 to read as follows:
   25.  "SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER" SHALL BE DEFINED AS A POLICE OFFICER OR
 PEACE OFFICER WHO SERVES IN A ROLE AS SECURITY PERSONNEL  FOR  A  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT.

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

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