Exempts the costs associated with the construction of community college capital facilities from the real property tax levy limit for local governments.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5376
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, COOK, DUPREY, PAULIN, LUPINACCI, MONTESANO
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH, JAFFEE, THIELE -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to exempting the
costs associated with the construction of community college capital
facilities from the real property tax levy limit for local governments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 3-c of the general municipal law, as added by section 1 of part
3 A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subparagraph
4 (v) is added to read as follows:
5 (iv) 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 the education law,
8 increases by more than two percentage points from the previous year, a
9 tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for local
10 government employer contributions to the New York state teachers'
11 retirement system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus
12 two percentage points[.];
13 (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year
14 related to the financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,
15 renovation, acquisition, design, rehabilitation, improvement, furnish-
16 ing, equipping or alteration of community college capital facilities,
17 including debt service and lease expenditures, as approved by the local
18 sponsor, as defined in subdivision three of section sixty-three hundred
19 one of the education law.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
21 the amendments to section 3-c of the general municipal law made by
22 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
23 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03273-01-5
