Bill Text: NY S03311 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Excludes expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03311-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3311--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to excluding expenditures
          for  school  resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned
          to a school district from tax levy limitations

          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 subparagraph
     4  (v) 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
    14    (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures to pay for a school resource
    15  officer that is currently employed by a municipality and assigned to the
    16  school  district provided that the school district is in compliance with
    17  section thirteen hundred eighteen of the real property tax law.
    18    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education
    19  law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of  2011,
    20  is amended to read as follows:
    21    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the
    22  event  the  trustee, trustees or board of education of a school district

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04223-02-1
        S. 3311--A                          2

     1  that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that
     2  will require a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for  the  corre-
     3  sponding  school  year,  not including any levy necessary to support the
     4  expenditures  pursuant  to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of para-
     5  graph i of subdivision two of this section, then such  budget  shall  be
     6  approved  if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirma-
     7  tive.
     8    § 3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
     9  vision 25 to read as follows:
    10    25.  "School resource officer" shall be defined as a police officer or
    11  peace officer who serves in a role as security personnel  for  a  school
    12  district.
    13    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.