Bill Text: NY A05773 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Exempts the cost to school districts of employing school safety personnel from the calculation of the tax levy limits.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in education [A05773 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05773-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5773
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 19, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. LALOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to exempting the cost  to
          school  districts of employing school safety personnel from the calcu-
          lation of the tax levy limits
          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 to read as follows:
     4    (iii)  in  years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
     5  state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
     6  sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
     7  more than two percentage points from  the  previous  year,  a  tax  levy
     8  necessary  for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for school
     9  district employer contributions to the New York state teachers'  retire-
    10  ment  system  caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two
    11  percentage points; [and]
    12    (iv) a capital tax levy; and
    13    (v) the cost to the school district of employing school safety person-
    14  nel.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    16  ing  the  date  upon which it shall have become a law and shall apply to
    17  all school years commencing on and after such date;  provided,  however,
    18  that the amendments to paragraph i of subdivision 2 of section 2023-a of
    19  the  education  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the
    20  repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.    Effec-
    21  tive  immediately  the  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or
    22  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
    23  date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09739-01-9
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