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                                   6803
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a school
   safety spending exclusion from annual tax levy limits
 
   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, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   i. "Tax levy limit" means the amount of taxes  a  school  district  is
 authorized to levy pursuant to this section, provided, however, that the
 tax levy limit shall not include the following:
   (i)  a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from court orders
 or judgments against the school district arising out of tort actions for
 any amount that exceeds five percent of the  total  tax  levied  in  the
 prior school year;
   (ii)  in years in which the system average actuarial contribution rate
 of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, as defined
 by paragraph ten of subdivision a of section nineteen-a of  the  retire-
 ment  and  social  security  law,  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 and local employees' retirement system caused  by  growth
 in  the  system average actuarial contribution rate minus two percentage
 points;
   (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-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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  FOR  EXPENDITURES RELATED TO SCHOOL SAFETY. FOR THE
 PURPOSES OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH, "EXPENDITURES RELATED TO  SCHOOL  SAFETY"
 SHALL  INCLUDE COSTS, INCLUDING LABOR COSTS, INCURRED AS A RESULT OF, OR
 DIRECTLY RELATED TO: IMPROVING DISTRICT WIDE EMERGENCY  RESPONSE  PLANS,
 TRAINING  STAFF  AND/OR  STUDENTS ON SCHOOL SAFETY AND/OR CONFLICT MEDI-
 ATION, INSTALLING AND MAINTAINING  SAFETY  TECHNOLOGY  AND  SOFTWARE  AT
 ENTRANCES  AND THROUGHOUT SCHOOL BUILDINGS, HIRING SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFI-
 CERS, ACQUIRING EMERGENCY MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, INSTALLING  FENCING  AROUND
 THE  PERIMETER  OF  SCHOOL  GROUNDS,  INSTALLING  BULLETPROOF  DOORS AND
 WINDOWS, ACQUIRING AND MAINTAINING TECHNOLOGY FOR EXPEDITED NOTIFICATION
 OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT  DURING  AN  EMERGENCY,  AND  DESIGNING  SCHOOL
 GROUNDS  AND  STRUCTURES  TO IMPLEMENT CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRON-
 MENTAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  taxes
 levied  by or on behalf of  school districts for school years commencing
 on and after such effective date.