What's happening
This bill allows school districts to exclude tuition payments for resident students attending other districts from their tax levy limits.
Why it matters
Reduces pressure on local school district budgets. by letting them exclude certain tuition payments from tax levy limits, which means districts won’t have to cut services or programs elsewhere to cover these mandatory costs.
Benefits districts with many resident students attending other schools. (like special education placements or tuition agreements), making funding more predictable and less vulnerable to enrollment shifts outside their control.
Could help avoid local tax cap override votes. by allowing tuition costs to be funded without triggering the need for higher voter approval, thus maintaining community support and stable education funding.
May reduce inequities between districts. by recognizing that not all education costs are within a district’s control, especially when required to pay tuition for resident students educated elsewhere.
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Who cares
School districts paying tuition to other districts
The bill would exclude the tax levy needed for tuition payments for resident general education and special students from the school property tax cap.
School districts receiving tuition payments
The exclusion would give sending districts more room under the tax cap to raise revenue for tuition payments to receiving districts.
Property taxpayers in tuition-paying districts
The bill would allow districts to levy taxes for these tuition costs outside the tax cap, beginning with 2018-2019 school budgets.
Families of students educated in other districts
The bill would change how their home districts can raise property tax revenue to cover tuition for resident general education and special students.
Headline styles
Let Schools Cover Tuition Costs
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Print number 2340a
- Amend and recommit to education
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Fund Tuition for Local Students
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Kenneth P. LaValle
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
S. 2979--A A. 2340--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 18, 2017
IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SKARTADOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph i of subdivision 2 of section 2023-a of the education law, as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new paragraph (v) is added to read as follows:
(iii) in years in which the normal contribution rate of the New York state teachers' retirement system, as defined by paragraph a of subdivision two of section five hundred seventeen of this chapter, increases by more than two percentage points from the previous year, a tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal year for school district employer contributions to the New York state teachers' retirement system caused by growth in the normal contribution rate minus two percentage points; [and]
(iv) a capital tax levy[.]; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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S. 2979--A 2 A. 2340--A
(v) a tax levy necessary for expenditures for the coming fiscal school year for a school district which makes payments to one or more school districts to pay for tuition for general education and special students residing in such school district.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to school district budgets and the budget adoption process for the 2018-2019 school year; and shall continue to apply to school district budgets and the budget adoption process for any school year beginning in any calendar year during which this act is in effect; provided, however, that the amendments to section 2023-a of the education law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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