Bill Text: NY S00123 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excludes expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00123 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00123-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           123

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to excluding expenditures
          for school resource officers employed by a municipality  and  assigned
          to a school district from tax levy limitations

          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 to pay for a school resource
    15  officer that is currently employed by a municipality and assigned to the
    16  school district provided that the school district is in compliance  with
    17  section thirteen hundred eighteen of the real property tax law.
    18    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education
    19  law,  as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011,
    20  is amended to read as follows:
    21    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the
    22  event the trustee, trustees or board of education of a  school  district
    23  that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00535-01-3
        S. 123                              2

     1  will  require  a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for the corre-
     2  sponding school year, not including any levy necessary  to  support  the
     3  expenditures  pursuant  to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of para-
     4  graph  i  of  subdivision two of this section, then such budget shall be
     5  approved if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the  affirma-
     6  tive.
     7    §  3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdi-
     8  vision 25 to read as follows:
     9    25. "School resource officer" shall be defined as a police officer  or
    10  peace  officer  who  serves in a role as security personnel for a school
    11  district.
    12    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.