Bill Text: NY A01527 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excludes expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A01527 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01527-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1527

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph i of  subdivision
     2  2  of section 2023-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of part
     3  A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new  subparagraph
     4  (v) is added to read as follows:
     5    (iii)  in  years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
     6  state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
     7  sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
     8  more than two percentage points from  the  previous  year,  a  tax  levy
     9  necessary  for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for school
    10  district employer contributions to the New York state teachers'  retire-
    11  ment  system  caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two
    12  percentage points; [and]
    13    (iv) a capital tax levy[.]; and
    14    (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures to pay for a school resource
    15  officer that is currently employed by a municipality and assigned to the
    16  school district provided that the school district is in compliance  with
    17  section thirteen hundred eighteen of the real property tax law.
    18    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education
    19  law,  as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011,
    20  is amended to read as follows:
    21    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the
    22  event the trustee, trustees or board of education of a  school  district
    23  that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that
    24  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.
                                                                   LBD00535-01-3
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     1  sponding school year, not including any levy necessary  to  support  the
     2  expenditures  pursuant  to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of para-
     3  graph i of subdivision two of this section, then such  budget  shall  be
     4  approved  if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirma-
     5  tive.
     6    § 3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
     7  vision 25 to read as follows:
     8    25.  "School resource officer" shall be defined as a police officer or
     9  peace officer who serves in a role as security personnel  for  a  school
    10  district.
    11    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.