The New York State Senate

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                                  10096

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 10, 2020
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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.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06981-03-0