Bill Text: NY S08724 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts the costs associated with expenditures resulting from the purchase of BOCES services and programs from the real property tax levy limit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S08724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08724-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8724

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 5, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- 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  exempting  the  costs
          associated  with  expenditures  resulting  from  the purchase of BOCES
          services and programs from the real property tax levy limit

          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, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    i. "Tax levy limit" means the amount of taxes  a  school  district  is
     5  authorized to levy pursuant to this section, provided, however, that the
     6  tax levy limit shall not include the following:
     7    (i)  a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from court orders
     8  or judgments against the school district arising out of tort actions for
     9  any amount that exceeds five percent of the  total  tax  levied  in  the
    10  prior school year;
    11    (ii)  in years in which the system average actuarial contribution rate
    12  of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, as defined
    13  by paragraph ten of subdivision a of section nineteen-a of  the  retire-
    14  ment  and  social  security  law,  increases by more than two percentage
    15  points from the previous year, a tax levy necessary for expenditures for
    16  the coming fiscal year for school district employer contributions to the
    17  New York state and local employees' retirement system caused  by  growth
    18  in  the  system average actuarial contribution rate minus two percentage
    19  points;
    20    (iii) in years in which the normal contribution rate of the  New  York
    21  state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
    22  sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
    23  more  than  two  percentage  points  from  the previous year, a tax levy
    24  necessary for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for  school
    25  district  employer contributions to the New York state teachers' retire-
    26  ment system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate  minus  two
    27  percentage points; [and]

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 8724                             2

     1    (iv) a capital tax levy; and
     2    (v)  a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from the purchase
     3  of BOCES services and programs.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of  May  next  succeeding
     5  the date on which it shall have become a law.