Bill Text: NJ S3324 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires boards of education to post on website information summarizing payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S3324 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S3324-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 3324

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 3, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH PENNACCHIO

District 26 (Morris and Passaic)

Senator  OWEN HENRY

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires boards of education to post on website information summarizing payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning certain financial information provided by a board of education and supplementing chapter 22 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  A board of education shall post for public inspection on its website a summary of its payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable. The board shall also post a summary document that outlines in a user-friendly manner the board's major categories of expenditures and identifies the vendors selected through competitive bidding or competitive contracting to provide goods and services.

     b.    The information required pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be posted on the website in a prominent and easily accessible location and in a format approved by the Commissioner of Education.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires each board of education to post for public inspection on its website a summary of its payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable. The bill also requires each board to post a summary document that outlines in a user-friendly manner the board's major categories of expenditures and identifies the vendors selected through competitive bidding or competitive contracting to provide goods and services.

     Under the bill, the information must be posted in a prominent and easily accessible location and in a format approved by the Commissioner of Education.