NY State Senate Bill 2017-S1025

Senate Bill S1025

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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2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A846
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§2 & 2023-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S6878, A9502
2019-2020: S4472, A3186
2021-2022: A104
2023-2024: A1527

2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S1025

 TITLE OF BILL :  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

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :  To provide increased flexibility
to school districts within the property tax cap to utilize a
municipally employed school resource officer.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Sections 1 and 2 of this bill amend section 2023-a of the education
law by adding a provision relating to expenditures that are exempt
from the school district "tax cap". The new provision exempts the
portion of the tax levy necessary for expenditures to pay for a school
resource officer, provided that the officer is employed by a
municipality and that the school district is assigned in compliance
with section 1318 of the real property tax law.

Section 3:Defines the term "School Resource Officer."

Section 4:Effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :  Safety and security are vital necessities when it

comes to our school districts. Recent events around the country have
shown us that it is imperative to have adequate measures of protection
at our schools, in order to ensure the safety of children, staff and
any individual who steps into the school. Allowing this expenditure to
be exempt from the tax cap will assist school districts in providing
for increased safety and security.

While providing safety and security for various communities across the
state, this legislation will also provide incentive for school
districts to comply with section 1318 of the real property tax law
which states that school districts must not have any operating funds
in excess of four percent of the current school year budget.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

S.6878 of 2016: Died in Senate Education Committee.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None to state.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately provided that the amendments
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.

2017-S1025 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1025
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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:
 
   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.

                                                            LBD03753-01-7

 S. 1025                             2
 
   §  4. 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.

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John J. Bonacic