S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8513
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
September 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
Johnson City 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 486, 515 and 525 of
the laws of 2024, 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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school district, the Cleveland Hill union free school district, the
Depew union free school district, the Iroquois central school district,
the Liverpool central school district, the Auburn enlarged city school
district, the Carmel central school district, the Clarence central
school district, the Fulton city school district, [and] the Canastota
central school district, AND THE JOHNSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT may estab-
lish insurance reserve funds in compliance 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 insur-
ance 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.