Bill Text: NY A02227 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the tax levy limit shall not include a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from a local government meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to local governments [A02227 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02227-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2227
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to providing
          enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iv)  of  paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of
     2  section 3-c of the general municipal law, as added by section 1 of  part
     3  A  of  chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subparagraph
     4  (v) is added to read as follows:
     5    (iv) 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  the education law,
     8  increases by more than two percentage points from the previous  year,  a
     9  tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for local
    10  government  employer  contributions  to  the  New  York  state teachers'
    11  retirement system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus
    12  two percentage points[.];
    13    (v) a tax levy necessary  for  expenditures  resulting  from  a  local
    14  government  meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability
    15  benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two hundred
    16  five-cc of this chapter.
    17    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 3-c of the  general  municipal  law,  as
    18  added  by  section  1  of  part  A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is
    19  amended to read as follows:
    20    5. A local government may adopt a budget that requires a tax levy that
    21  is greater than the tax levy limit  for  the  coming  fiscal  year,  not
    22  including  any  levy  necessary  to support the expenditures pursuant to
    23  subparagraphs (i) through [(iv)] (v) of paragraph g of  subdivision  two
    24  of  this  section,  only  if the governing body of such local government
    25  first enacts, by a vote of sixty percent of the total  voting  power  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06119-01-9
        A. 2227                             2
     1  such  body,  a  local  law to override such limit for such coming fiscal
     2  year only, or in the case of a district or fire district, a  resolution,
     3  approved  by  a  vote of sixty percent of the total voting power of such
     4  body, to override such limit for such coming fiscal year only.
     5    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     6  ing the date on which it shall have become  a  law;  provided,  however,
     7  that the amendments to subdivisions 2 and 5 of section 3-c of the gener-
     8  al municipal law made by sections one and two of this act, respectively,
     9  shall  not  affect  the repeal of such section and shall be deemed to be
    10  repealed  therewith.  Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    11  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    12  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    13  completed on or before such effective date.