Bill Text: NY A05371 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5371 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that no school district shall be eligible to receive the full apportionment of state aid to which it is entitled if evidence is found by the state comptroller when an audit is conducted and such audit finds that a district has inappropriate excess of their unexpended surplus funds and such school district did not reduce the school tax levy in a proportion equal to the excess of four percent of the current year school budget.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in education [A05371 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05371-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5371
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 11, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, MONTESANO, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A. MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Education
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district state
          aid eligibility
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  3604 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
     3    8-a. No school district shall be eligible to receive the  full  appor-
     4  tionment  of state aid to which it is entitled under other provisions of
     5  this chapter if evidence is found by the state comptroller when an audit
     6  is conducted and such audit finds  that  a  district  has  inappropriate
     7  excess  of  their  unexpended surplus funds and such school district did
     8  not reduce the school tax levy in a proportion equal to  the  excess  of
     9  four percent of the current year school budget as required under section
    10  thirteen  hundred eighteen of the real property tax law, commencing with
    11  the two thousand eighteen-two thousand nineteen school year. The commis-
    12  sioner shall withhold from the full apportionment of such state  aid  an
    13  amount  equal  to  the excess of four percent in such unexpended surplus
    14  funds of the current year school budget.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05719-01-9