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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
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 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. 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.
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 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.