Assembly Bill A10096

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to excluding tax levies necessary for expenditures increasing school safety or security from the school district tax levy limit

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  • 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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2019-A10096 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3080
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2023-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S8267

2019-A10096 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to excluding tax levies necessary for expenditures increasing school safety or security from the school district tax levy limit.

2019-A10096 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10096
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to excluding tax levies
   necessary for expenditures increasing school safety or  security  from
   the school district tax levy limit
 
   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, as added by section 2 of part
 A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new  subparagraph
 (v) is added to read as follows:
   (iii)  in  years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
 state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
 sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
 more than two percentage points from  the  previous  year,  a  tax  levy
 necessary  for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for school
 district employer contributions to the New York state teachers'  retire-
 ment  system  caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two
 percentage points; [and]
   (iv) a capital tax levy[.]; AND
   (V) A TAX LEVY NECESSARY FOR EXPENDITURES INCREASING SCHOOL SAFETY  OR
 SECURITY.
   § 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.

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