NY State Senate Bill 2011-S6545

Senate Bill S6545

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to certain tuition payments by school districts for general education and special students residing in such school districts

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2011-S6545 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9365
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2023-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S4002, A5584
2015-2016: S2361, A3113
2017-2018: S2979, A2340
2019-2020: S3687, A5416
2021-2022: S5173, A5805
2023-2024: S2090, A4292

2011-S6545 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certain tuition payments by school districts for general education and special students residing in such school districts.

2011-S6545 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S6545

TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to certain tuition
payments by school districts for general education and special students
residing in such school districts

PURPOSE:

Relates to certain tuition payments by school districts for general
education and special students residing in such school districts.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph 1 of subdivision 2 of Section
2023-a of the Education Law, as added by Section 2 of part A of Chapter
97 of the Laws of 2011, are amended and a new paragraph (v) is added to
exclude from the tax levy limit a tax levy necessary for expenditures
for the coming fiscal school year for a school district which makes
payments to one or more school districts to pay for tuition for general
education and special students residing in such school district.

JUSTIFICATION:

Many school districts without a middle school and/or high school pay

tuition for their secondary students to attend another school district.
As a result of annual fluctuations in enrollment in general education
and special education tuition students and because the rates are
computed by the State Education Department's Seneca Falls formula, the
budgetary increases that many of these school districts are incurring in
just tuition payments alone are placing them significantly over the
current allowable tax levy limit. This legislation is necessary to
exclude from the tax levy limit a tax levy which is necessary to support
expenditures for the coming fiscal school year for a school district
which makes payments to one or more school districts to pay for tuition
for general education and special students residing in such school
district. Similar to the exemption for pension costs, school districts
have no direct control over these costs.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Legislation, 2012

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to school
district budgets and the budget adoption process for the 2012-13 school
year; and shall continue to apply to school district budgets and the
budget adoption process for any school year beginning in any calendar
year during which this act is in effect; provided, however, that the
amendments to Section 2023-a of the Education Law made by Section 1 of
this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
repealed therewith.

2011-S6545 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

    S. 6545                                                  A. 9365

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            February 24, 2012
                               ___________

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  certain  tuition
  payments  by  school  districts  for  general  education  and  special
  students residing in such school districts

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph i of subdivision
2 of section 2023-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of  part
A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new paragraph (v)
is added to read as follows:
  (iii)  in  years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York
state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
more than two percentage points from  the  previous  year,  a  tax  levy
necessary  for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for school
district employer contributions to the New York state teachers'  retire-
ment  system  caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two
percentage points; [and]
  (iv) a capital tax levy[.]; AND
  (V) A TAX LEVY NECESSARY FOR EXPENDITURES FOR THE COMING FISCAL SCHOOL
YEAR FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH MAKES PAYMENTS TO ONE  OR  MORE  SCHOOL
DISTRICTS  TO PAY FOR TUITION FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND SPECIAL STUDENTS
RESIDING IN SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first  apply  to
school  district  budgets  and  the  budget    adoption  process for the
2012-2013 school year; and shall continue to apply  to  school  district
budgets and the budget adoption process for any school year beginning in
any calendar year during which this act is in effect; provided, however,
that  the  amendments  to  section  2023-a  of the education law made by
section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section  and
shall be deemed repealed therewith.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14056-03-2

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