Bill Text: NY S02979 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to certain tuition payments by school districts for general education and special students residing in such school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-30 - PRINT NUMBER 2979A [S02979 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02979-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 2979--A                                            A. 2340--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    January 18, 2017
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --
          recommitted to the Committee on Education in  accordance  with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, MONTESANO  --  Multi-Spon-
          sored  by  --  M.  of  A.  SKARTADOS  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  certain  tuition
          payments  by  school  districts  for  general  education  and  special
          students residing in such school districts
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph i of subdivision
     2  2 of section 2023-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of  part
     3  A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new paragraph (v)
     4  is added to read as follows:
     5    (iii)  in  years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
     6  state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
     7  sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
     8  more than two percentage points from  the  previous  year,  a  tax  levy
     9  necessary  for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for school
    10  district employer contributions to the New York state teachers'  retire-
    11  ment  system  caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two
    12  percentage points; [and]
    13    (iv) a capital tax levy[.]; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal school
     2  year for a school district which makes payments to one  or  more  school
     3  districts  to pay for tuition for general education and special students
     4  residing in such school district.
     5    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to
     6  school district budgets  and  the  budget    adoption  process  for  the
     7  2018-2019  school  year;  and shall continue to apply to school district
     8  budgets and the budget adoption process for any school year beginning in
     9  any calendar year during which this act is in effect; provided, however,
    10  that the amendments to section 2023-a  of  the  education  law  made  by
    11  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
    12  shall be deemed repealed therewith.