Bill Title: Makes provisions for the state to assume all costs of basic quality education and for the elimination of real property taxes for the support of education; requires board of regents to establish a schedule of mandatory basic services and costs thereof; provides that school districts shall submit an annual basic budget to the department of education for basic services; increases taxes on personal income and business; makes special provisions for reduction of tax in certain cities and for reduction in rent by tenants in such cities; provides for phased in methods of funding using a "Basic Quality Education" formula; repeals certain provisions of the tax law and real property tax law relating thereto.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-05 - referred to education [A00447 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember William Boyland [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-055	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Harvey Weisenberg [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-020	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Mark Schroeder [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-050	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Annette Robinson [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-056	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Robert Reilly [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-109	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-141	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Marcus Molinaro [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-113	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Charles Lavine [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator George Latimer [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Ro Ann Destito [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-116	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Kevin Cahill [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-103	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember James Brennan [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Naomi Rivera [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-080	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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