NY State Senate Bill 2019-S4472

Senate Bill S4472

2019-2020 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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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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2019-S4472 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3186
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
2017-2018: S1025, A846
2021-2022: A104
2023-2024: A1527

2019-S4472 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S4472 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4472

SPONSOR: ANTONACCI
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law, in relation to
excluding expenditures for school resource officers employed by a muni-
cipality and assigned to a school district from tax levy limitations

 
PURPOSE:

To provide increased flexibility to school districts within the property
tax cap to utilize a municipally employed school resource officer.

 
SUMMARY OF 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 offi-
cer, 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.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.6878 of 2016
S.1025 of 2017

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
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.

2019-S4472 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4472
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 12, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ANTONACCI -- 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. 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 subparagraph
 (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 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD01107-01-9

 S. 4472                             2
 
 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.
   §  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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