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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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. 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 immediately.