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                                    869
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GUNTHER, BRINDISI, JAFFEE, BUCHWALD, SKOUFIS,
   OTIS, STIRPE, BARRETT, BRONSON, HAWLEY, RAIA, GRAF, MONTESANO, CROUCH,
   LUPINACCI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, PERRY, SKARTADOS  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to tax levy limits of
   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  are  renumbered  subparagraphs
 (iv) and (v) and a new subparagraph (iii) is added to read as follows:
   (III)  A TAX LEVY NECESSARY FOR EXPENDITURES TO ENSURE ADEQUATE SAFETY
 AND PROTECTION FROM A SERIOUS VIOLENT INCIDENT OR SIMILAR EMERGENCY,  AS
 SUCH  TERMS ARE DEFINED IN PART 155.17 OF THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY
 THE COMMISSIONER, WHICH MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT  LIMITED  TO,  EXPENDI-
 TURES  FOR  SECURITY  PERSONNEL, SAFETY TRAINING OR INSTRUCTION, INFRAS-
 TRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND SECURITY, AND  THE  ACQUISI-
 TION OF SECURITY DEVICES OR OTHER SAFETY EQUIPMENT;
   § 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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03028-01-7
              

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   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments  made  to  section 2023-a of the education law by sections one and
 two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
 deemed repealed therewith.