Bill Text: NY A00241 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Exempts the costs associated with expenditures resulting from the purchase of BOCES services and programs from the real property tax levy limit.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-31 - print number 241a [A00241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00241-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         241--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL, BRABENEC -- 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  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to exempting the costs
          associated with expenditures resulting  from  the  purchase  of  BOCES
          services and programs from the real property tax levy limit

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph i of subdivision  2  of  section  2023-a  of  the
     2  education law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    i.  "Tax  levy  limit"  means the amount of taxes a school district is
     5  authorized to levy pursuant to this section, provided, however, that the
     6  tax levy limit shall not include the following:
     7    (i) a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from court  orders
     8  or judgments against the school district arising out of tort actions for
     9  any  amount  that  exceeds  five  percent of the total tax levied in the
    10  prior school year;
    11    (ii) in years in which the system average actuarial contribution  rate
    12  of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, as defined
    13  by  paragraph  ten of subdivision a of section nineteen-a of the retire-
    14  ment and social security law, increases  by  more  than  two  percentage
    15  points from the previous year, a tax levy necessary for expenditures for
    16  the coming fiscal year for school district employer contributions to the
    17  New  York  state and local employees' retirement system caused by growth
    18  in the system average actuarial contribution rate minus  two  percentage
    19  points;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01703-02-2
        A. 241--A                           2

     1    (iii)  in  years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
     2  state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
     3  sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
     4  more than two percentage points from  the  previous  year,  a  tax  levy
     5  necessary  for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for school
     6  district employer contributions to the New York state teachers'  retire-
     7  ment  system  caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two
     8  percentage points; [and]
     9    (iv) a capital tax levy; and
    10    (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from the  purchase
    11  of BOCES services and programs.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the first of May next succeeding
    13  the date on which it shall have become a law.