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Assembly Bill A3777

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Excludes tax levies necessary for expenditures increasing school safety or security from the school district tax levy limit

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2021-A3777 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2023-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10205
2019-2020: A6102
2023-2024: A3507

2021-A3777 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A3777 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3777
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DeSTEFANO, BRABENEC, B. MILLER, McDONOUGH, MORI-
   NELLO, SALKA, J. M. GIGLIO, MANKTELOW, BLANKENBUSH --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  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

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

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