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Assembly Bill A4526

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Limits a school district contingency budget to the lowest proposed defeated budget for the applicable school year

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2019-A4526 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2023, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A9195
2011-2012: A5529
2013-2014: A5793
2015-2016: A2216
2017-2018: A5567

2019-A4526 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits a school district contingency budget to the lowest proposed defeated budget for the applicable school year.

2019-A4526 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4526
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to limiting  the  contin-
   gency budget of a school district
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 2023 of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of
 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   a. The contingency budget shall not result in THE LESSER OF (I) a  tax
 levy  greater than the tax levied for the prior school year; OR (II) THE
 DOLLAR AMOUNT OF THE LOWEST, PROPOSED, DEFEATED BUDGET FOR THE  APPLICA-
 BLE  SCHOOL  YEAR. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE SAME TYPES OF
 EXPENDITURES EXCLUDED FROM THE CALCULATION OF  TOTAL  SPENDING  FOR  THE
 PROPOSED BUDGET SHALL BE EXCLUDED WHEN CALCULATING THE TOTAL SPENDING IN
 THE CONTINGENCY BUDGET.
   §  2.  Paragraph  a  of subdivision 4 of section 2023 of the education
 law, as amended by section 24 of part A of chapter 436 of  the  laws  of
 1997, is amended to read as follows:
   a. The contingency budget shall not result in a percentage increase in
 total  spending  over  the  district's  total  spending under the school
 district budget for the prior school year that exceeds  the  lesser  of:
 (i) the result obtained when one hundred twenty percent is multiplied by
 the  percentage  increase  in  the consumer price index, with the result
 rounded to two decimal places; [or] (ii)  four  percent;  OR  (III)  THE
 DOLLAR  AMOUNT OF THE LOWEST, PROPOSED, DEFEATED BUDGET FOR THE APPLICA-
 BLE SCHOOL YEAR. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE SAME  TYPES  OF
 EXPENDITURES  EXCLUDED  FROM  THE  CALCULATION OF TOTAL SPENDING FOR THE
 PROPOSED BUDGET SHALL BE EXCLUDED WHEN CALCULATING THE TOTAL SPENDING IN
 THE CONTINGENCY BUDGET.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08811-01-9

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