Bill Text: NY A04528 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to establish minimum standards for the maintenance and repair of school buildings; eliminates the tax levy cap for expenditures related to school building maintenance and repair.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A04528 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04528-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4528 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, L. ROSENTHAL, STECK, SOLAGES, HEVE- SI, COOK, CAHILL, MONTESANO, HUNTER, ABINANTI, LUPARDO -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, McDONALD, RIVERA, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the commis- sioner of education to establish standards for the maintenance and repair of school buildings and exempting expenditures for the mainte- nance and repair of school buildings from the tax levy limit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 57 to read as follows: 3 57. The commissioner shall, by rule, establish minimum standards for 4 the maintenance and repair of school buildings so as to provide an 5 appropriate learning environment within each such building. 6 § 2. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph i of subdivision 2 of 7 section 2023-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of part A of 8 chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new subparagraph (v) 9 is added to read as follows: 10 (iii) in years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York 11 state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi- 12 sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by 13 more than two percentage points from the previous year, a tax levy 14 necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for school 15 district employer contributions to the New York state teachers' retire- 16 ment system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two 17 percentage points; [and] 18 (iv) a capital tax levy[.]; and 19 (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures for the maintenance and 20 repair of school buildings. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08650-01-9A. 4528 2 1 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 2 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the 3 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 4 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 5 to be made and completed on or before such date; and provided further 6 that the amendments to section 2023-a of the education law made by 7 section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and 8 shall be deemed repealed therewith.