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A06799 Summary:

BILL NOA06799
 
SAME ASSAME AS S06884
 
SPONSOREachus
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §2023-a, Ed L
 
Provides an annual tax levy limit allowing for expenditures directly or indirectly related to school safety, including improving district wide emergency response plans, training staff and/or students on school safety and/or conflict mediation, installing and maintaining safety technology and software in school buildings, hiring school resource officers, 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.
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A06799 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6799
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 14, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          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:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  i  of  subdivision  2 of section 2023-a of the
     2  education law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    i. "Tax levy limit" means the amount of taxes  a  school  district  is
     5  authorized to levy pursuant to this section, provided, however, that the
     6  tax levy limit shall not include the following:
     7    (i)  a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from court orders
     8  or judgments against the school district arising out of tort actions for
     9  any amount that exceeds five percent of the  total  tax  levied  in  the
    10  prior school year;
    11    (ii)  in years in which the system average actuarial contribution rate
    12  of the New York state and local employees' retirement system, as defined
    13  by paragraph ten of subdivision a of section nineteen-a of  the  retire-
    14  ment  and  social  security  law,  increases by more than two percentage
    15  points from the previous year, a tax levy necessary for expenditures for
    16  the coming fiscal year for school district employer contributions to the
    17  New York state and local employees' retirement system caused  by  growth
    18  in  the  system average actuarial contribution rate minus two percentage
    19  points;
    20    (iii) in years in which the normal contribution rate of the  New  York
    21  state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi-
    22  sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by
    23  more  than  two  percentage  points  from  the previous year, a tax levy
    24  necessary for  expenditures  for  the  coming  fiscal  year  for  school
    25  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.
                                                                   LBD05790-01-5

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     1  ment system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate  minus  two
     2  percentage points; [and]
     3    (iv) a capital tax levy[.]; and
     4    (v)  a  tax  levy  for  expenditures related to school safety. For the
     5  purposes of this subparagraph, "expenditures related to  school  safety"
     6  shall  include costs, including labor costs, incurred as a result of, or
     7  directly related to: improving district wide emergency  response  plans,
     8  training  staff  and/or  students on school safety and/or conflict medi-
     9  ation, installing and maintaining  safety  technology  and  software  at
    10  entrances  and throughout school buildings, hiring school resource offi-
    11  cers, acquiring emergency medical equipment, installing  fencing  around
    12  the  perimeter  of  school  grounds,  installing  bulletproof  doors and
    13  windows, acquiring and maintaining technology for expedited notification
    14  of local law enforcement  during  an  emergency,  and  designing  school
    15  grounds  and  structures  to implement Crime Prevention Through Environ-
    16  mental Design principles.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  taxes
    18  levied  by or on behalf of  school districts for school years commencing
    19  on and after such effective date.
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