Bill Text: NY A03175 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to school boards approving a budget that exceeds the tax levy limit by a sixty percent vote; subsequently it must be approved by a majority of the qualified voters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A03175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03175-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3175

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school boards

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a
     2  of the education law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter  97  of
     3  the laws of 2011, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law to the contrary, [in
     5  the event] where 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,  such  proposed  budget
    11  shall be approved by sixty percent of the votes of the trustee, trustees
    12  or  board  of  education,  then  such budget shall be approved if [sixty
    13  percent] a majority of the votes cast [thereon] by qualified voters  are
    14  in the affirmative.
    15    (b) Where the trustee, trustees or board of education proposes a budg-
    16  et subject to the requirements of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the
    17  ballot for such budget shall include the following statement in substan-
    18  tially  the  same  form:  "Adoption  of  this budget requires a tax levy
    19  increase of         which exceeds the statutory tax levy increase  limit
    20  of       for this school fiscal year and therefore exceeds the state tax
    21  cap and must be approved by [sixty percent] a majority of the  qualified
    22  voters present and voting."
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04081-01-1