STATE OF NEW YORK
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3186
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRABE-
NEC -- read once and referred 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. 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
23 that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that
24 will require a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for the corre-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 sponding school year, not including any levy necessary to support the
2 expenditures pursuant to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of para-
3 graph i of subdivision two of this section, then such budget shall be
4 approved if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirma-
5 tive.
6 § 3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdi-
7 vision 25 to read as follows:
8 25. "School resource officer" shall be defined as a police officer or
9 peace officer who serves in a role as security personnel for a school
10 district.
11 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
12 ments made to section 2023-a of the education law by sections one and
13 two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
14 deemed repealed therewith.