A 3112: Excludes certain tuition payments by school districts for general education and special students residing in such school districts from the calculation of the tax levy limit.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3112 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to certain tuition payments by school districts for general education and special students residing in such school districts 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 paragraph (v) 4 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 for the coming fiscal school 15 year for a school district which makes payments to one or more school 16 districts to pay for tuition for general education and special students 17 residing in such school district. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to 19 school district budgets and the budget adoption process for the 20 2025-2026 school year; and shall continue to apply to school district 21 budgets and the budget adoption process for any school year beginning in 22 any calendar year during which this act is in effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05993-01-5