Senate Bill S8063

                            
 
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                                   8063
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 16, 2020
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 Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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. 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 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.