Provides that, in certain counties, legislative actions taken by the county assessor or the county legislature shall not in any way modify the amount to be raised by taxes as fixed by the school district pursuant to law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 18, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the calculation of the
tax levy limit in certain counties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2023-a of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in a county
4 of a million or more residents with a special assessing unit and having
5 fifty or more school districts, where the annual budget shall have been
6 adopted and the amount to be raised by taxes for the next school year
7 has been fixed by a school district by certifying and filing to such
8 county on or before the fifteenth day of August of each school year, the
9 amount to be raised by taxes certified by, or on behalf of such school
10 district or school districts, to the county shall be "the total amount
11 of taxes levied for the prior school year" as defined in subparagraph
12 one of paragraph a of subdivision three of this section. Any
13 correction, determination, calculation or legislative action taken,
14 approved, adopted or implemented by the county assessor or the county
15 legislature of such county, shall not in any way modify the amount to be
16 raised by taxes as fixed by the school district pursuant to this
17 section.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
19 the amendments to section 2023-a of the education law made by section
20 one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
21 deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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