Bill Text: NY A03296 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the electronic and print publication of certain school district reports within 7 days after approval; defines "local officer or employee" to include certain school officials.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-11 - held for consideration in education [A03296 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03296-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3296
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. FITZPATRICK, FINCH, McKEVITT -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A.  BARCLAY, KOLB, RAIA, THIELE -- read once and  referred
         to the Committee on Education
       AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to electronic and print
         publication of certain school  district  reports,  and  to  amend  the
         general municipal law, in relation to additional definitions
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2-e to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S 2-E. PUBLICATION OF SCHOOL  REPORTS.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  CONTRARY
    4  PROVISION  OF LAW OR REGULATION, NO LATER THAN SEVEN CALENDAR DAYS AFTER
    5  THE APPROVAL BY ANY TRUSTEE, PRINCIPAL, OFFICER, OR BOARD  OF  EDUCATION
    6  OF  ANY  PUBLIC SCHOOL IN ANY BOCES, CITY, UNION FREE, COMMON OR CENTRAL
    7  SCHOOL DISTRICT OR ANY CHARTER SCHOOL, SUCH SCHOOL SHALL MAKE  AVAILABLE
    8  ON  A  SCHOOL  OR  DISTRICT SPONSORED WEBSITE AND IN PRINTED FORM AT THE
    9  DISTRICT OFFICE ALL AUDIT REPORTS, PROPOSED AND ENACTED BUDGETS, EXPEND-
   10  ITURE  REPORTS,  UNION  CONTRACTS,  SUPERINTENDENT  CONTRACTS,  AND  THE
   11  MINUTES OF ALL SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS.
   12    S  2.  Subdivision  3  of section 810 of the general municipal law, as
   13  amended by section 5 of part J of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2013,  is
   14  amended to read as follows:
   15    3.  The  term "local officer or employee" shall mean A SUPERINTENDENT,
   16  DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OR SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIAL AS WELL AS the heads
   17  (other than local elected officials) of any  agency,  department,  divi-
   18  sion,  council,  board, commission, or bureau of a political subdivision
   19  and their deputies and assistants, and the  officers  and  employees  of
   20  such  agencies,  departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions or
   21  councils who hold policy-making positions, as annually determined by the
   22  appointing authority and set forth in a written instrument  which  shall
   23  be  filed with the appropriate body during the month of February; except
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05787-01-5
       A. 3296                             2
    1  that the term "local officer  or  employee"  shall  not  mean  a  judge,
    2  justice, officer or employee of the unified court system. Members, offi-
    3  cers,  and employees of each industrial development agency and authority
    4  established  by  this  chapter  or created by the public authorities law
    5  shall be deemed officers or employees of the county, city,  village,  or
    6  town  for  whose  benefit  such  agency  or  authority is established or
    7  created.
    8    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    9  it shall have become a law.