Assembly Bill A8076

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Creates a school budget tax cap exemption for expenditures resulting from settlements or jury awards under the child victims act

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A8076 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2023-a, 1608, 1716 & 2022, Ed L

2023-A8076 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a school budget tax cap exemption for expenditures resulting from settlements or jury awards for civil actions brought against school districts under the child victims act.

2023-A8076 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8076
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CONRAD,  WALLACE,  McMAHON  -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  creating  a  school
   budget  tax  cap  exemption for expenditures resulting from settlement
   awards in civil actions brought against  school  districts  under  the
   child victims act

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 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, is amended to read as follows:
   i.  "Tax  levy  limit"  means the amount of taxes a school district is
 authorized to levy pursuant to this section, provided, however, that the
 tax levy limit shall not include the following:
   (i) a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from court  orders
 or judgments against the school district arising out of tort actions for
 any  amount  that  exceeds  five  percent of the total tax levied in the
 prior school year;
   (ii) A TAX LEVY NECESSARY FOR EXPENDITURES RESULTING FROM COURT ORDERS
 OR JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ARISING OUT OF CIVIL CLAIMS  OR
 CAUSES  OF  ACTION BROUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN-G OF
 THE CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES;
   (III) in years in which the system average actuarial contribution rate
 of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, as defined
 by paragraph ten of subdivision a of section nineteen-a of  the  retire-
 ment  and  social  security  law,  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 and local employees' retirement system caused  by  growth
 in  the  system average actuarial contribution rate minus two percentage
 points;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13257-01-3
              

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