Bill Text: NY A01568 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "school budget vote fairness act".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - held for consideration in education [A01568 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01568-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1568
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 10, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO, AMEDORE -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Education
       AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "school
         budget vote fairness act"
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
    2  the "school budget vote fairness act".
    3    S 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section  2023  of  the  education
    4  law,  as  added  by  section  24 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws of
    5  1997, is amended and a new paragraph b-2 is added to read as follows:
    6    a. The contingency budget  shall  not  result  in:  (I)  a  percentage
    7  increase  in total spending over the district's total spending under the
    8  school district budget for the prior school year that exceeds the lesser
    9  of:  [(i)] (A) the result obtained when one hundred  twenty  percent  is
   10  multiplied  by the percentage increase in the consumer price index, with
   11  the result rounded to two decimal places; or [(ii)] (B) four percent; OR
   12    (II) TOTAL SPENDING GREATER THAN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO ONE  PERCENT  LESS
   13  THAN  THE  TOTAL SPENDING SET FORTH IN THE SECOND BUDGET PREPARED BY THE
   14  SCHOOL DISTRICT AND REJECTED BY THE VOTERS OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
   15    B-2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  IN
   16  DETERMINING  THE  TOTAL SPENDING FROM EXPENDITURES THAT WILL BE INCLUDED
   17  IN A CONTINGENCY BUDGET, ESTIMATES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO,  ESTI-
   18  MATES  WITH REGARD TO INCREASES OR CHANGES IN SCHOOL DISTRICT ENROLLMENT
   19  OR DEMOGRAPHICS, USED TO DETERMINE ITEMS ELIGIBLE FOR EXCLUSION PURSUANT
   20  TO PARAGRAPH B OF THIS SUBDIVISION, SHALL NOT BE CHANGED,  INCREASED  OR
   21  MODIFIED  IN  ANY  WAY  FROM  ESTIMATES USED FOR SUCH EXCLUSION ITEMS IN
   22  DETERMINING THE SCHOOL  DISTRICT  BUDGET  ORIGINALLY  PREPARED  BY  SUCH
   23  SCHOOL DISTRICT AND REJECTED BY THE VOTERS OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
   24    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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