Bill Text: NY A00066 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 66 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the powers and duties of the Rochester board of education; prohibits board members from being employed by the district within two years of serving on such board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A00066 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00066-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           66
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and  duties
          of boards of education
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2554  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  27  of  the  laws  of  2012, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. To create, abolish, maintain and consolidate such positions,  divi-
     5  sions,  boards  or bureaus as, in its judgment, may be necessary for the
     6  proper and efficient administration of its work;  to  appoint  a  super-
     7  intendent  of  schools,  such  associate,  assistant, district and other
     8  superintendents, examiners, directors, supervisors,  principals,  teach-
     9  ers,  lecturers,  special instructors, medical inspectors, nurses, audi-
    10  tors, attendance officers, secretaries, clerks, custodians, janitors and
    11  other employees and other persons or experts in educational,  social  or
    12  recreational  work  or  in  the  business management or direction of its
    13  affairs as said  board  shall  determine  necessary  for  the  efficient
    14  management  of  the  schools and other educational, social, recreational
    15  and business activities; provided, however,  that  in  the  city  school
    16  districts  of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse appointment
    17  of associate, assistant and district superintendents, and  other  super-
    18  vising  staff  who  are  excluded from the right to bargain collectively
    19  pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law shall, within  the
    20  amounts  budgeted  for  such positions, be by the superintendent of such
    21  city school district; and to determine their duties except as  otherwise
    22  provided  herein.   No person who has served as a member of the board of
    23  education in the city school district of the city of Rochester shall  be
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01899-01-7

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     1  employed by such city school district within the two years following the
     2  termination or conclusion of such service.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
     4  candidates for employment by the city school district  of  the  city  of
     5  Rochester on or after such effective date.