Bill Text: NY A09183 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts certain BOCES capital expenditures from limitations upon local school district tax levies.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-14)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-02 - held for consideration in education [A09183 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09183-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9183
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 2, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to exempting BOCES  capi-
          tal  expenditures  from  limitations  upon  local  school district tax
          levies
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  c  of  subdivision  2 of section 2023-a of the
     2  education law, as amended by section 1 of subpart C of part C of chapter
     3  20 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    c. "Capital [local] expenditures"  means  the  taxes  associated  with
     5  budgeted  expenditures resulting from the financing, refinancing, acqui-
     6  sition, design, construction, reconstruction,  rehabilitation,  improve-
     7  ment,  furnishing  and  equipping  of, or otherwise providing for school
     8  district  capital  facilities  or  school  district  capital  equipment,
     9  including  debt service and lease expenditures, and transportation capi-
    10  tal debt service, subject to the approval of the qualified voters  where
    11  required  by  law[.   The commissioner of taxation and finance shall, as
    12  appropriate, promulgate rules and  regulations  which  may  provide  for
    13  adjustment  of capital local expenditures to reflect a school district's
    14  share of additional budgeted capital expenditures made  by  a  board  of
    15  cooperative  educational  services]  and  the school district's share of
    16  capital expenditures for boards of cooperative educational  services  as
    17  authorized  pursuant  to  subparagraph one of paragraph b of subdivision
    18  four, paragraphs p, t and u of subdivision four, paragraphs a and  b  of
    19  subdivision thirteen, and paragraph a of subdivision fourteen of section
    20  nineteen hundred fifty of this title.
    21    §  2.  Paragraph  b  of subdivision 4 of section 2023 of the education
    22  law, as amended by section 3 of part A of chapter  97  of  the  laws  of
    23  2011, is amended to read as follows:
    24    b.  The  resolution  of  the  trustee,  board of trustees, or board of
    25  education adopting a contingency budget shall incorporate by reference a
    26  statement specifying the projected percentage increase  or  decrease  in
    27  total  spending  for  the  school  year,  and explaining the reasons for
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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