LEGISLATION UPDATE
(Letters Sent by NSSBA)
| Temporary State Energy and Utility Service Conservation Assessment (aka 18-a Assessment) - LETTER to Governor Cuomo | February 7, 2013 |
| Request to Veto Payments for Private School Placements - Letter to Governor Cuomo | June 29, 2012 |
| End of Session - STOP THE MANDATE MADNESS - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | June 21, 2012 |
| Payments for Private School Placements - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | June 21,2012 |
| Technical Amendment Section 2023-a - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | June 15, 2012 |
| New York State Budget - What's at State for Long Island? - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 23, 2012 |
| Nassau County Guarantee - New York State Tax Levy Cap - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 21, 2012 |
| MTA Payroll - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | December 2011 |
| NYS Local School Levy Cap - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | June 24, 2011 |
| NYS Local School Levy Cap - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | June 22, 2011 |
| Employee Benefit Accrued Liability Reserve Fund - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | May 11, 2010 |
| Special Education Mandate - Letter to Regent Tilles, Commissioner Steiner & Chancellor Tisch | April 16, 2010 |
| Mandate Relief Act 2010 - Letter to L.I. Assembly Delegation | March 22, 2010 |
| Nassau County - Limit Shift in Base Proportions - Letter to L.I. Senate Delegation | July 10, 2009 |
| Rockefeller Drug Law - Repeal provision that seals conviction records - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations, Governor David Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver | June 4, 2009 |
| MTA Payroll Tax - BOCES - Letter to Senators Brian Foley, Craig Johnson, Suzi Oppenheimer, Andrea Stewart-Cousins (cc: L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations) | May 6, 2009 |
| MTA School Payroll Tax - DON'T SELL OUT for the BAILOUT! - Letter to Senators Brian Foley, Craig Johnson, Suzi Oppenheimer, Andrea Stewart-Cousins (cc: L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations) | May 5, 2009 |
| Reject the Governor's MTA Bailout Scheme!!! - Letter to Senators Brian Foley & Craig Johnson (cc: L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations, Gov. David Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver, Senator Suzi Oppenheimer, Chair, Senate Education Committee; Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Chair, Assembly Education Committee | May 4, 2009 |
| MTA School Payroll Tax - No Place in School Budgets - Letter to Senator Suzi Oppenheimer, Chair, Senate Education Committee (cc: Gov. David Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Chair, Assembly Education Committee; L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations, Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins) | May 4, 2009 |
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MTA School Payroll Tax Stop the Shell Game! - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations (cc: Governor Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver) |
May 1, 2009 |
| ALERT - Derail the MTA Payroll Tax! | April 30, 2009 |
| Payroll Tax on Schools to Fund MTA Bailout - Letter to Gov. David A. Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith, Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver (cc: L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | April 30, 2009 |
| Legislative Alert - Stop the MTA School Payroll Tax in its Tracks!l | April 28, 2009 |
| The MTA payroll tax is the ultimate unfunded mandate - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations, Gov. David A. Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith, Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver | April 22, 2009 |
| School Budgets are NOT an ATM for the MTA! - Letter to Gov. David A. Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith, Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver (cc: L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | April 3, 2009 |
| Opposition to the MTA Payroll Tax - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 2009 |
| Oppose the Cap/Reduction of Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT's) on State Owned Lands - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 2009 |
| Shift to School Districts of Pre-School Special Education Costs - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 2009 |
| Legislative Alert - MTA Payroll Tax | February 2009 |
| MTA Payroll Tax - Letter to Governor David Paterson, NYS Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | February 2009 |
| IDEA - Letter to Governor David Paterson | January 8, 2009 |
| Thank You - Letter to Senator Dean Skelos | December 2, 2008 |
| Report of the Task Force on Maximizing School District Resources | |
| Mid-Year School Aid Cuts - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | November 2008 |
| School Crossing Guards - Letter to Governor Paterson | August 2008 |
| Establishment of a Retiree Health Insurance Task Force - Letter to Governor Paterson | |
| State Holding Up Local Records Management Grants - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | August 2008 |
| Mandatory Negotiation of Discipline - Letter to Governor Paterson | July 2008 |
| Permanent Agency Shop Fee - Letter to Governor Paterson | July 2008 |
| Burden of Proof in IEP Challenges - Letter to Governor Spitzer | August 2007 |
| Medicaid Reimbursement - Letter to Senators Schumer & Clinton | July 2007 |
| Wicks Law - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegation | May 2007 |
| Fund Balance - Letter to L.I. Assembly Delegation, cc: L.I. Senate Delegation | May 2007 |
| Nassau County Base Proportions - Letter to Assemblyman Weisenberg | April 2007 |
| Charter School Expansion - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 2007 |
| Erosion of School District Bargaining Authority - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 2007 |
| Wicks Law Repeal - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | March 2007 |
| Imposing Charter Schools on Suburban Communities - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | December 2006 |
| "Streamlining" Mandate - Letter to L.I. Assembly Delegation | June 2006 |
| Charter School Expansion - Letter to L.I. Senate & Assembly Delegations | May 2006 |
| House Budget Resolution FY2007 - Letter to Representatives Ackerman, Bishop, Israel, King and McCarthy | May 2006 |
| Proposition 1 - Letter to Member Boards of Education | October 2005 |
| Capped real property school tax for persons over 70 years of age - Letter to Senator LaValle & Assemblyman Englebright | October 2005 |
| Amendments to the Taylor Law - Letter to L.I. Senators & Assembly. | June 2005 |
| April 2005 | |
| Contingency Budget Cap - Letter to L.I. Senators & Assembly. | April 2005 |
| Five-Point Plan - Letter to L.I. Senators & Assemblymembers | April 2005 |
| One Vote Mandate - Letter to L.I. Senators & Assemblymembers | April 2005 |
| Federal E-rate Regulation - Letter to L.I. Congressional Delegation | April 2005 |