Bill Text: NY S06878 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6878 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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) 2016-03-02 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S06878 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06878-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6878
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 2, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. 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 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. Paragraph i of subdivision  2  of  section  2023-a  of  the
     2  education  law  is  amended  by adding a new subparagraph (v) to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures to pay for a school resource
     5  officer that is currently employed by a municipality and assigned to the
     6  school district provided that the school district is in compliance  with
     7  section thirteen hundred eighteen of the real property tax law.
     8    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education
     9  law,  as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011,
    10  is amended to read as follows:
    11    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the
    12  event the trustee, trustees or board of education of a  school  district
    13  that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that
    14  will  require  a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for the corre-
    15  sponding school year, not including any levy necessary  to  support  the
    16  expenditures  pursuant  to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of para-
    17  graph i of subdivision two of this section, then such  budget  shall  be
    18  approved  if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirma-
    19  tive.
    20    § 3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
    21  vision 25 to read as follows:
    22    25.  "School resource officer" shall be defined as a police officer or
    23  peace officer who serves in a role as security personnel  for  a  school
    24  district.
    25    §  4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    26  ments made to section 2023-a of the education law by  sections  one  and
    27  two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
    28  deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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