Bill Text: NY A00207 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the audit of schools in the state to determine compliance in the instruction of humane treatment of animals; provides for an annual report to the governor and legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to education [A00207 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00207-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          207
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  auditing  schools  of
         the  state to determine compliance in the instruction of humane treat-
         ment of animals
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  809 of the education law, as
    2  amended by chapter 542 of the laws  of  1994,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    6. AUDIT. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ANNUALLY AUDIT THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE
    5  TO DETERMINE COMPLIANCE WITH THIS SECTION.
    6    7.  Report.  On or before the first day of January next succeeding the
    7  effective date of this amended section, the commissioner shall  annually
    8  submit a report to the governor and the legislature which shall include,
    9  but  not  be  limited  to,  the number of written program plan proposals
   10  submitted by schools and  the  number  of  such  proposals  subsequently
   11  approved  by  the  commissioner.  In  those  cases  where a program plan
   12  proposal has been approved by  the  commissioner,  such  plan  shall  be
   13  appended  to and become a part of the commissioner's annual report.  THE
   14  REPORT SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE RESULTS  OF  AN  AUDIT  CONDUCTED  BY  THE
   15  DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SIX OF THIS SECTION.
   16    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   17  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
   18  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
   19  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
   20  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
   21  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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