STATE OF NEW YORK
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846
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
2 ments made to section 2023-a of the education law by sections one and
3 two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
4 deemed repealed therewith.
