Bill Text: NY S00818 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for the elimination of certain reporting requirements imposed on school districts and local governments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 818A [S00818 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00818-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 818--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LITTLE, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, MARTINS, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to provide for the elimination of burdensome reporting require- ments imposed on school districts and local governments The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any 2 provision of statute or regulation that requires a local government or 3 school district to submit a report to a state agency or authority shall 4 expire and be deemed repealed on April 1, 2017; provided, however, that 5 all provisions of such statutes and regulations other than such specific 6 reporting requirements shall be unaffected by the repeal of such report- 7 ing requirements and remain in full force and effect. 8 § 2. Every state agency and authority shall prepare and submit to the 9 mandate relief council, on or before December 31, 2016, a report that 10 identifies each report it receives from local governments and school 11 districts pursuant to statutory or regulatory requirements and, for each 12 such report, explains the agency's or authority's need for the report, 13 makes a recommendation to eliminate or continue the reporting require- 14 ment, and, where the recommendation is to continue the reporting 15 requirement, makes additional recommendations including but not limited 16 to the secure electronic transmission of data directly to state agencies 17 and authorities to reduce the burden the reporting requirement imposes 18 on local governments and school districts. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06270-02-6
