Assembly Bill A9838

                             
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                                   9838
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2024
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 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
   Niskayuna central school district to create an insurance reserve fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
 al  municipal  law, as separately amended by chapters 589 and 598 of the
 laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) The governing board of any municipal corporation may  establish  a
 reserve  fund  to  be  known  as  the  insurance  reserve fund. Upon the
 creation of the fund, the municipality may make  expenditures  from  the
 fund  for  any  loss,  claim, action or judgment for which the municipal
 corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
 except those kinds of risks for which insurance is  authorized  pursuant
 to  paragraph  one,  two,  three, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
 twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
 hundred thirteen of the insurance  law,  or  for  payments  in  lieu  of
 contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
 that  no  municipality  shall make an expenditure from such fund for any
 loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation  has
 established  a  reserve fund under any other provision of law; provided,
 further that the Scarsdale union free school  district,  the  Mamaroneck
 union free school district, the Minisink Valley central school district,
 the  Vernon  Verona  Sherrill  central  school district, the Ithaca city
 school  district,  the  Kenmore-Town  of  Tonawanda  union  free  school
 district,  the Bedford central school district, the Grand Island central
 school district, the Tonawanda city school district, the  enlarged  city
 school district of Middletown, the Frontier central school district, the
 Owego  Apalachin  central  school  district,  the  Maine-Endwell central
 school district, the Binghamton city school district, the Candor central
 school district, the Cleveland Hill  union  free  school  district,  the
 Depew union free school district, the Liverpool central school district,
 the  Auburn  enlarged  city  school  district, the Carmel central school
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 9838                             2
 
 district, [and] the Canastota central school district, AND THE NISKAYUNA
 CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT may establish insurance reserve funds in compli-
 ance with this section and article seventy-four of the education law and
 such  school  districts  may  make  expenditures in compliance with this
 section and article seventy-four of the education law from such  reserve
 fund  for  any  loss,  claim,  action  or  judgment for which the school
 districts are authorized or required to purchase or  maintain  insurance
 for  the  kinds  of  risks for which insurance is authorized pursuant to
 paragraph three of subsection (a) of section one  thousand  one  hundred
 thirteen of the insurance law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.