Senate Bill S8362

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a school safety spending exclusion from annual tax levy limits

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8362 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6803
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2023-a, Ed L

2023-S8362 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides an annual tax levy limit allowing for expenditures directly or indirectly related to school safety, including improving district wide emergency response plans, training staff and/or students on school safety and/or conflict mediation, installing and maintaining safety technology and software in school buildings, hiring school resource officers, acquiring emergency medical equipment, installing fencing around the perimeter of school grounds, installing bulletproof doors and windows, acquiring and maintaining technology for expedited notification of local law enforcement during an emergency.

2023-S8362 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8362 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8362
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a  school
   safety spending exclusion from annual tax levy limits
 
   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) 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;
   (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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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