senate Bill S8777

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting the Frontier central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor Calendar
    • Passed Senate
    • Passed Assembly
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed/Vetoed by Governor

Your Voice

do you support this bill?

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

view actions (1)
Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 16, 2018 referred to local government

S8777 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11079
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-n, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S1732, A8139

S8777 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the Frontier central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.

S8777 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S8777 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 


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

                                  8777

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 16, 2018
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
  Frontier central school district to  establish  an  insurance  reserve
  fund

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
al municipal law, as separately amended by chapters 414 and 416  of  the
laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
  (a)  The  governing board of any municipal corporation may establish a
reserve fund to be  known  as  the  insurance  reserve  fund.  Upon  the
creation  of  the  fund, the municipality may make expenditures from the
fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment  for  which  the  municipal
corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
except  those  kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized pursuant
to paragraph one, two, three,  fifteen,  sixteen,  seventeen,  eighteen,
twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
hundred  thirteen  of  the  insurance  law,  or  for payments in lieu of
contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
that no municipality shall make an expenditure from such  fund  for  any
loss,  claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation has
established a reserve fund under any other provision of  law;  provided,
further  that the Scarsdale union free school district [and], the Vernon
Verona Sherrill central school district [may establish insurance reserve
funds in compliance with this section and article  seventy-four  of  the
education  law and], the Minisink Valley central school district AND THE
FRONTIER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT may establish insurance  reserve  funds
in  compliance  with this section and article seventy-four of the educa-
tion law and such school districts may make expenditures  in  compliance
with  this  section  and  article seventy-four of the education law from
such reserve fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment for which  the
school  districts  are  authorized  or  required to purchase or maintain
insurance for the kinds of  risks  for  which  insurance  is  authorized
pursuant  to  paragraph  three of subsection (a) of section one thousand
one hundred thirteen of the insurance law.

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.