Bill Text: NY S05877 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-02 - PRINT NUMBER 5877A [S05877 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05877-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 5877--A A. 8136--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY June 10, 2015 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. CROCI, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- 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 IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, MURRAY, GARBARINO, RA, LAVINE, LUPINACCI, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11373-02-6
