Bill Text: NY A04528 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4528
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        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.
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     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.