Senate Bill S1255

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts certain expenditures relating to school safety from tax levy limits

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S1255 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A869
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2023-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3456, A4843
2015-2016: S3052, A1182
2019-2020: S3008, A1836

2017-S1255 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts certain expenditures relating to school safety from tax levy limits.

2017-S1255 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1255 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1255
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  FUNKE,  BONACIC,  ORTT  -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Educa-
   tion
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to tax levy limits of
   school districts
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph i of subdivision
 2 of section 2023-a of the education law  are  renumbered  subparagraphs
 (iv) and (v) and a new subparagraph (iii) is added to read as follows:
   (III)  A TAX LEVY NECESSARY FOR EXPENDITURES TO ENSURE ADEQUATE SAFETY
 AND PROTECTION FROM A SERIOUS VIOLENT INCIDENT OR SIMILAR EMERGENCY,  AS
 SUCH  TERMS ARE DEFINED IN PART 155.17 OF THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY
 THE COMMISSIONER, WHICH MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT  LIMITED  TO,  EXPENDI-
 TURES  FOR  SECURITY  PERSONNEL, SAFETY TRAINING OR INSTRUCTION, INFRAS-
 TRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND SECURITY, AND  THE  ACQUISI-
 TION OF SECURITY DEVICES OR OTHER SAFETY EQUIPMENT;
   § 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. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments  made  to  section 2023-a of the education law by sections one and
 two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
 deemed repealed therewith.

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