Bill Text: NY S00997 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 997 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Excludes the value of state forest preserve lands in the Adirondack and Catskill parks from use in the determination of state aid to school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00997 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00997-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          997
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sens. LITTLE, BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  excluding  the  valu-
         ation  of state forest preserve lands, within the Adirondack and Cats-
         kill parks, from the definition of "actual valuation" for purposes  of
         apportionment of state moneys to school districts
         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 1 of section 3602 of the  educa-
    2  tion  law,  as amended by section 11 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws
    3  of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    4    c. "Actual valuation" shall mean the valuation of taxable real proper-
    5  ty in a school district obtained by taking  the  assessed  valuation  of
    6  taxable  real  property  within  such  district  as  it appears upon the
    7  assessment roll of the town, city, village,  or  county  in  which  such
    8  property is located, for the calendar year two years prior to the calen-
    9  dar year in which the base year commenced, after revision as provided by
   10  law, and dividing it by the state equalization rate as determined by the
   11  state board of [equalization and assessment] REAL PROPERTY TAX SERVICES,
   12  for the assessment roll of such town, city, village, or county completed
   13  during  such preceding calendar year; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE ACTUAL
   14  VALUATION OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL NOT INCLUDE THE  VALUATION  OF  ANY
   15  REAL  PROPERTY  WITHIN  A  STATE  FOREST  PRESERVE THAT IS EITHER IN THE
   16  ADIRONDACK PARK OR THE CATSKILL PARK.  The actual valuation of a central
   17  high school district shall be the sum of such valuations of  its  compo-
   18  nent districts. Such actual valuation shall include any actual valuation
   19  equivalent  of  payments in lieu of taxes determined pursuant to section
   20  four hundred eighty-five of the real property tax law. "Selected  actual
   21  valuation"  shall mean the lesser of actual valuation calculated for aid
   22  payable in the current year or the two-year average of the actual  valu-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01210-01-3
       S. 997                              2
    1  ation  calculated  for  aid  payable  in the current year and the actual
    2  valuation calculated for aid payable in the base year.
    3    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    4  the date on which it shall have become a law.