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A05312 Summary:

BILL NOA05312
 
SAME ASSAME AS S04834
 
SPONSORGiglio JM
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §3641, Ed L
 
Provides a $500,000 supplemental valuation impact grant to the West Valley central school district during the 2023--2024 school year.
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A05312 Actions:

BILL NOA05312
 
03/07/2023referred to education
01/03/2024referred to education
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A05312 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A5312
 
SPONSOR: Giglio JM
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to providing a supple- mental valuation impact grant to the West Valley central school district   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To provide a $500,000 supplemental valuation impact grant to the West Valley Central School District.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 3641, subdivision 3 of the Education Law is amended.   JUSTIFICATION: Within the boundaries of the West Valley Central School District is the West Valley Nuclear Demonstration project site. This site is located on approximately 3,300 acres in the Town of Ashford where West Valley is situated. Initially, in 1961, the site was created to commercially reprocess spent nuclear fuel. The operator of the site was Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS). In the late 1970's, NFS determined that IL was no longer feasible to pursue reprocessing. Since then the site has been in the process of being decommissioned. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is the owner of the facility. The real property tax school funding system that New York State uses to fund its public schools system disproportionately hurts West Valley, since they have little real property to tax, given that most of their land is state-owned, and as such is tax exempt, primarily as a result of the West Valley nuclear reprocessing project that folded. In addition, the School District is a small, rural, relatively poor area with little tax base to begin with. This situation is further magnified by an unwillingness of families to locate in the District due to fears associ- ated with living close to a nuclear facility couple with one of the highest tax rates in Cattaraugus County. West Valley School District assessment equates to approximately 85% tax exempt lands. New York State-owned lands account for 941 of this exemption. If taxable, this nuclear site would provide over $2.7 million dollars of tax revenue each school year to the district. The district's current property owners pay a disproportionate share of school tax as compared to property owners in other districts. This makes purchasing a home cost prohibitive for young families. Because of West Valley's unique situation, this bill was requested by the school district to help offset the loss of revenues that they incur due to their tax exempt lands.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2020: S.7220 Referred to Education 2019: S.906/A.5876 Referred to Education   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: $500,000, subject to appropriation in the state budget.   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.
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A05312 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5312
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  providing  a  supple-
          mental  valuation  impact  grant  to  the  West  Valley central school
          district
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.    Subdivision  3 of section 3641 of the education law, as
     2  added by section 29-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, para-
     3  graph a as amended by section 31 of part A of chapter 57 of the laws  of
     4  2009, is amended to read as follows:
     5    3. Supplemental valuation impact grants.  a. In addition to apportion-
     6  ments otherwise provided by section thirty-six hundred two of this arti-
     7  cle, for aid payable in the two thousand [eight] twenty-three--two thou-
     8  sand  [nine  and two thousand nine--two thousand ten] twenty-four school
     9  [years] year, the [amounts] amount specified in [paragraphs] paragraph c
    10  [and d] of this subdivision shall be paid for the purpose  of  providing
    11  additional funding for a school [districts] district which [have experi-
    12  enced a significant financial hardship caused by an extraordinary change
    13  in  the  taxable property valuation or extraordinary judgments resulting
    14  from tax certiorari proceedings] has more than eighty-three  percent  of
    15  its real property classified as tax exempt.
    16    b.  The purpose of this subdivision is to provide financial assistance
    17  to a school [districts] district which [have experienced  a  significant
    18  reduction  in  the taxable full value of the school district or extraor-
    19  dinary tax certiorari judgments] has more than eighty-three  percent  of
    20  its  real property classified as tax exempt.  The legislature finds that
    21  a school [districts for which a judgment was made resulting from  a  tax
    22  certiorari  proceeding  which  is  larger  than  the total budget of the
    23  school district for school year two thousand seven--two  thousand  eight
    24  or  for  school  districts] district which [have observed a reduction of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09590-01-3

        A. 5312                             2

     1  taxable real property of more than seventy-five percent  between  school
     2  year  two  thousand  five--two thousand six and school year two thousand
     3  eight--two thousand nine] has more than eighty-three percent of its real
     4  property  classified as tax exempt during school year two thousand twen-
     5  ty-three--two thousand twenty-four may benefit from temporary additional
     6  assistance.
     7    c. To the [Barker central school district, there  shall  be  paid  one
     8  million three hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000). Such grant shall be
     9  payable  to  the  Barker  central school district in accordance with the
    10  payment schedules contained in section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this
    11  article, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary.
    12    d. To the Haverstraw-Stony Point central school district, there  shall
    13  be  paid  two  million  five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000). Such
    14  grant shall be payable to  the  Haverstraw-Stony  Point  central  school
    15  district  in  accordance with the payment schedules contained in section
    16  thirty-six hundred nine-a of this article, notwithstanding any provision
    17  of law to the contrary] West Valley central school district, there shall
    18  be paid five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). Such  grant  shall  be
    19  payable  to  the  West Valley central school district in accordance with
    20  the payment schedules contained in section thirty-six hundred nine-a  of
    21  this article, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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