Assembly Bill A846

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to excluding expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A846 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1025
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2 & 2023-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9502, S6878
2019-2020: A3186, S4472
2021-2022: A104
2023-2024: A1527

2017-A846 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes expenditures for school resource officers employed by a municipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations.

2017-A846 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    846
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph i of subdivision  2  of  section  2023-a  of  the
 education  law  is  amended  by adding a new subparagraph (v) to read as
 follows:
   (V) A TAX LEVY NECESSARY FOR EXPENDITURES TO PAY FOR A SCHOOL RESOURCE
 OFFICER THAT IS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY A MUNICIPALITY AND ASSIGNED TO THE
 SCHOOL DISTRICT PROVIDED THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS IN COMPLIANCE  WITH
 SECTION THIRTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTEEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education
 law,  as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the
 event the trustee, trustees or board of education of a  school  district
 that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that
 will  require  a tax levy that exceeds the tax levy limit for the corre-
 sponding school year, not including any levy necessary  to  support  the
 expenditures  pursuant  to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (V) of para-
 graph i of subdivision two of this section, then such  budget  shall  be
 approved  if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirma-
 tive.
   § 3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
 vision 25 to read as follows:
   25.  "SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER" SHALL BE DEFINED AS A POLICE OFFICER OR
 PEACE OFFICER WHO SERVES IN A ROLE AS SECURITY PERSONNEL  FOR  A  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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