Bill Text: NY S01245 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 1245A [S01245 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01245-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1245--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  VALESKY, FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Education  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee on Education in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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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        S. 1245--A                          2
     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, provided that, effective
     3  immediately, any  rules  and  regulations  necessary  to  implement  the
     4  provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed
     5  to  be  promulgated, amended and/or repealed on or before such date; and
     6  provided further that the amendments to section 2023-a of the  education
     7  law  made by section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
     8  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.