Bill Text: NY A00511 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to voting to approve school budgets that exceed the tax levy limits for the corresponding school year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A00511 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00511-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 511 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to voting to approve school budgets that exceed the tax levy limits for the corresponding school year The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 6 and 9 of section 2023-a of the education 2 law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, 3 are amended to read as follows: 4 6. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in 5 the event the trustee, trustees or board of education of a school 6 district that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a 7 budget that will require a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for 8 the corresponding school year, not including any levy necessary to 9 support the expenditures pursuant to subparagraphs (i) through (iv) of 10 paragraph i of subdivision two of this section, then such budget shall 11 be approved if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon by the trustee, 12 trustees or board of education of a school district are in the affirma- 13 tive. 14 (b) Where the trustee, trustees or board of education proposes a budg- 15 et subject to the requirements of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the 16 ballot for such budget shall include the following statement in substan- 17 tially the same form: "Adoption of this budget requires a tax levy 18 increase of which exceeds the statutory tax levy increase limit 19 of for this school fiscal year and therefore exceeds the state tax 20 cap and must be approved by sixty percent of the trustee, trustees or 21 board of education members and fifty percent of the qualified voters 22 present and voting." EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05081-01-9A. 511 2 1 9. Nothing in this section shall preclude the trustee, trustees, or 2 board of education of a school district, in their discretion, from 3 submitting additional items of expenditures to the voters for approval 4 as separate propositions or the voters from submitting propositions 5 pursuant to sections two thousand eight and two thousand thirty-five of 6 this part; provided however, except in the case of a proposition submit- 7 ted for any expenditure contained within subparagraphs (i) through (iv) 8 of paragraph i of subdivision two of this section, if any proposition, 9 or propositions collectively that are subject to a vote on the same 10 date, would require an expenditure of money that would require a tax 11 levy and would result in the tax levy limit being exceeded for the 12 corresponding school year then such proposition shall be approved if 13 sixty percent of the votes cast thereon of the trustee, trustees or 14 board of education members are in the affirmative. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 16 the amendments to subdivisions 6 and 9 of section 2023-a of the educa- 17 tion law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of 18 such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
