Bill Text: NY A06102 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to excluding tax levies necessary for expenditures increasing school safety or security from the school district tax levy limit.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-04 - enacting clause stricken [A06102 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06102-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6102
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT amend the education law, in  relation  to  excluding  tax  levies
          necessary  for  expenditures increasing school safety or security from
          the school district tax levy limit
          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 increasing school safety or
    15  security.
    16    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education
    17  law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of  2011,
    18  is amended to read as follows:
    19    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the
    20  event  the  trustee, trustees or board of education of a school district
    21  that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that
    22  will require a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for  the  corre-
    23  sponding  school  year,  not including any levy necessary to support the
    24  expenditures pursuant to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v)  of  para-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  graph  i  of  subdivision two of this section, then such budget shall be
     2  approved if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the  affirma-
     3  tive.
     4    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     5  the amendments to section 2023-a of the education law made  by  sections
     6  one  and two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
     7  shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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