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- Amend by restoring to original print 7433
- Print number 7433a
- Amend and recommit to education
- Referred to education
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Relates to limitations on school district tax levies
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Harvey Weisenberg
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S7433
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to limitations upon school district tax levies
Purpose
To provide an exclusion of tax certiorari refund payments from school tax levy limits in relation to the real property tax cap.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends section 2023-a of the education law by adding a new subdivision 3(a) to authorize the Comptroller to determine the costs and savings for local governments and school districts affected by tax refunds from certiorari and allow for the tax levy to be adjusted in accordance with those refunds.
Section two sets the enacting date.
Justification
In 2010, the Nassau County Legislature voted to repeal the "County Guarantee" for refunds from successful tax certiorari proceedings, effective in the 2012-13 school year. School districts in Nassau County will now be responsible for a majority of the refunds resulting from such proceedings, and these figures must now be factored into the school districts' budgets. Applying this unknown annual sum of tax certiorari refunds into the calculation of a school district's tax levy will unintentionally adversely impact taxpayers.
General Municipal Law section 3-c provides that where the responsibility and associated cost of a local government function is transferred to another local government, the State Comptroller must determine the costs and savings for the affected local governments attributable to the transfer for the first fiscal year following the transfer. However, there is no equivalent provision in Education Law section 2023-a, covering transfers between school districts and local governments. Without this change, school districts would now bear the additional burden of paying these claims within a tax levy cap that did not previously contemplate such liabilities.
This bill is a technical correction which would provide for the equivalent treatment of school districts, as compared with other similarly situated special assessing units with respect to the allocation and adjustment process.
Prior legislative history
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Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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