Bill Text: NY A03628 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to permitting the Tonawanda city school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-20 - signed chap.499 [A03628 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03628-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3628
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
          Tonawanda city school district to establish an insurance reserve fund
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
     2  al  municipal  law, as separately amended by chapters 414 and 416 of the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) The governing board of any municipal corporation may  establish  a
     5  reserve  fund  to  be  known  as  the  insurance  reserve fund. Upon the
     6  creation of the fund, the municipality may make  expenditures  from  the
     7  fund  for  any  loss,  claim, action or judgment for which the municipal
     8  corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
     9  except those kinds of risks for which insurance is  authorized  pursuant
    10  to  paragraph  one,  two,  three, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
    11  twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
    12  hundred thirteen of the insurance  law,  or  for  payments  in  lieu  of
    13  contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
    14  that  no  municipality  shall make an expenditure from such fund for any
    15  loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation  has
    16  established  a  reserve fund under any other provision of law; provided,
    17  further that the Scarsdale union free school district [and], the  Vernon
    18  Verona Sherrill central school district [may establish insurance reserve
    19  funds  in  compliance  with this section and article seventy-four of the
    20  education law and], the Minisink Valley central school district and  the
    21  Tonawanda  city school district may establish insurance reserve funds in
    22  compliance with this section and article seventy-four of  the  education
    23  law  and  such school districts may make expenditures in compliance with
    24  this section and article seventy-four of the  education  law  from  such
    25  reserve  fund  for  any  loss,  claim,  action or judgment for which the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03914-01-9

        A. 3628                             2
     1  school districts are authorized or  required  to  purchase  or  maintain
     2  insurance  for  the  kinds  of  risks  for which insurance is authorized
     3  pursuant to paragraph three of subsection (a) of  section  one  thousand
     4  one hundred thirteen of the insurance law.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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