Bill Text: NY A03418 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the requisite vote required by a local government to adopt a budget that includes a tax levy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to local governments [A03418 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03418-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3418
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to increasing the
          requisite vote required by a local government to adopt a  budget  that
          includes a tax levy
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 3-c of the general municipal  law,
     2  as  added  by  section 1 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    5. A local government may adopt a budget that requires a tax levy that
     5  is greater than the tax levy limit  for  the  coming  fiscal  year,  not
     6  including  any  levy  necessary  to support the expenditures pursuant to
     7  subparagraphs (i) through (iv) of paragraph [g] (g) of  subdivision  two
     8  of  this  section,  only  if the governing body of such local government
     9  first enacts, by a vote of sixty percent of the total  voting  power  of
    10  such  body  except when the vote of sixty percent is equal to a majority
    11  of such body in which case it shall require a vote of  a  majority  plus
    12  one  of  all  the voting members, a local law to override such limit for
    13  such coming fiscal year only, or in the  case  of  a  district  or  fire
    14  district, a resolution, approved by a vote of sixty percent of the total
    15  voting power of such body, to override such limit for such coming fiscal
    16  year only.
    17    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    18  the amendments to subdivision 5 of section 3-c of the general  municipal
    19  law  made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
    20  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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