Bill Text: NY A08275 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that in certain instances the school district budget will be approved if the majority of the votes cast are in the affirmative and if the budget, without the separate proposition or propositions, does not exceed the tax levy limit.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A08275 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08275-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8275

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. THIELE, GARBARINO, RA, RAIA, BRABENEC, ABINANTI,
          McDONOUGH, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  ENGLEBRIGHT,  GALEF
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to the effect of failed
          propositions on voter approval for remaining propositions not  collec-
          tively exceeding 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. Subdivision 9 of section 2023-a of the  education  law,  as
     2  added  by  section  2  of  part  A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    9. Nothing in this section shall preclude the  trustee,  trustees,  or
     5  board  of  education  of  a  school  district, in their discretion, from
     6  submitting additional items of expenditures to the voters  for  approval
     7  as  separate  propositions  or  the  voters from submitting propositions
     8  pursuant to sections two thousand eight and two thousand thirty-five  of
     9  this part; provided however, except in the case of a proposition submit-
    10  ted  for any expenditure contained within subparagraphs (i) through (iv)
    11  of paragraph i of subdivision two of this section, if  any  proposition,
    12  or  propositions  collectively  that  are  subject to a vote on the same
    13  date, would require an expenditure of money that  would  require  a  tax
    14  levy  and  would  result  in  the  tax levy limit being exceeded for the
    15  corresponding school year then such proposition  shall  be  approved  if
    16  sixty  percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirmative.  In the
    17  event that the trustee, trustees, or board  of  education  of  a  school
    18  district  or  the  voters  submit  additional  items  of expenditure for
    19  approval as a separate proposition or  propositions  and  such  separate
    20  proposition  or propositions collectively with the budget exceed the tax
    21  levy limit, the budget shall be approved if a majority of the votes cast
    22  thereon are in the affirmative and if the budget, without  the  separate
    23  proposition or propositions, does not exceed the tax levy limit.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 8275                             2

     1    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.