STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1527 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph i of subdivision 2 2 of section 2023-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of part 3 A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new subparagraph 4 (v) is added to read as follows: 5 (iii) in years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York 6 state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivi- 7 sion two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by 8 more than two percentage points from the previous year, a tax levy 9 necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for school 10 district employer contributions to the New York state teachers' retire- 11 ment system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two 12 percentage points; [and] 13 (iv) a capital tax levy[.]; and 14 (v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures to pay for a school resource 15 officer that is currently employed by a municipality and assigned to the 16 school district provided that the school district is in compliance with 17 section thirteen hundred eighteen of the real property tax law. 18 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2023-a of the education 19 law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, 20 is amended to read as follows: 21 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the 22 event the trustee, trustees or board of education of a school district 23 that is subject to the provisions of this section proposes a budget that 24 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. LBD00535-01-3
A. 1527 2 1 sponding school year, not including any levy necessary to support the 2 expenditures pursuant to subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of para- 3 graph i of subdivision two of this section, then such budget shall be 4 approved if sixty percent of the votes cast thereon are in the affirma- 5 tive. 6 § 3. Section 2 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdi- 7 vision 25 to read as follows: 8 25. "School resource officer" shall be defined as a police officer or 9 peace officer who serves in a role as security personnel for a school 10 district. 11 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.