Bill Text: NY A10250 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that, in certain counties, legislative actions taken by the county assessor or the county legislature shall not in any way modify the amount to be raised by taxes as fixed by the school district pursuant to law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-18 - referred to education [A10250 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10250-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10250
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 18, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the calculation of the
          tax levy limit in certain counties
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 2023-a of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in a  county
     4  of  a million or more residents with a special assessing unit and having
     5  fifty or more school districts, where the annual budget shall have  been
     6  adopted  and  the  amount to be raised by taxes for the next school year
     7  has been fixed by a school district by certifying  and  filing  to  such
     8  county on or before the fifteenth day of August of each school year, the
     9  amount  to  be raised by taxes certified by, or on behalf of such school
    10  district or school districts, to the county shall be "the  total  amount
    11  of  taxes  levied  for the prior school year" as defined in subparagraph
    12  one  of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision  three  of  this  section.    Any
    13  correction,  determination,  calculation  or  legislative  action taken,
    14  approved, adopted or implemented by the county assessor  or  the  county
    15  legislature of such county, shall not in any way modify the amount to be
    16  raised  by  taxes  as  fixed  by  the  school  district pursuant to this
    17  section.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    19  the  amendments  to  section 2023-a of the education law made by section
    20  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
    21  deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15230-01-6