New York S 6884: Relates to establishing a school safety spending exclusion from annual tax levy limits

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S06884 Summary:

BILL NOS06884 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06799

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2023-a, Ed L

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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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BILL NOS06884 

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03/26/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6884

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 26, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed 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 an