Bill Text: NY S04182 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Reforms aspects of local government and school accountability; requires notice of reserve funds; requires resolution for reserve.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-04 - PRINT NUMBER 4182B [S04182 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04182-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4182--B
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 13, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- (at request of the State Comptroller) --
         read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
         the  Committee  on  Education  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
         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 committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to requiring notice of
         reserve funds and reserves funded by resolution
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.    Subdivision  5 of section 1608 of the education law, as
    2  amended by section 5 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws  of  1997,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    5.  The  trustee or board of trustees shall append to the statement of
    5  estimated expenditures a detailed statement of the total compensation to
    6  be paid to the superintendent of schools, and any assistant or associate
    7  superintendents of schools in  the  ensuing  school  year,  including  a
    8  delineation  of  the salary, annualized cost of benefits and any in-kind
    9  or other form of remuneration, AND A SCHEDULE OF RESERVE FUNDS,  SETTING
   10  FORTH  THE  NAME OF EACH RESERVE FUND, A DESCRIPTION OF ITS PURPOSE, THE
   11  BALANCE AS OF THE CLOSE OF THIRD QUARTER OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL  DISTRICT
   12  FISCAL  YEAR  AND  A BRIEF STATEMENT EXPLAINING ANY PLANS FOR THE USE OF
   13  EACH SUCH RESERVE FUND FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR.  The trustees  shall
   14  also  append  a list of all other school administrators and supervisors,
   15  if any, whose annual salary will be eighty-five thousand dollars or more
   16  in the ensuing school year, with the title of their positions and annual
   17  salary identified; provided however, that the  commissioner  may  adjust
   18  such  salary level to reflect increases in administrative salaries after
   19  June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-eight. The trustees shall submit
   20  a copy of such list and statement, in a form prescribed by  the  commis-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03379-06-4
       S. 4182--B                          2
    1  sioner, of compensation to the commissioner within five days after their
    2  preparation. The commissioner shall compile such data, together with the
    3  data  submitted  pursuant  to  subdivision  three  of  section seventeen
    4  hundred  sixteen  of  this chapter, into a single statewide compilation,
    5  which shall be made available to  the  governor,  the  legislature,  and
    6  other interested parties upon request.
    7    S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 1716 of the education law, as amended by
    8  section  7  of  part A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is amended to
    9  read as follows:
   10    5. The board of education shall append to the statement  of  estimated
   11  expenditures  a  detailed statement of the total compensation to be paid
   12  to the superintendent of schools, and any assistant or associate  super-
   13  intendents  of  schools  in the ensuing school year, including a deline-
   14  ation of the salary, annualized cost of  benefits  and  any  in-kind  or
   15  other  form  of  remuneration,  AND A SCHEDULE OF RESERVE FUNDS, SETTING
   16  FORTH THE NAME OF EACH RESERVE FUND, A DESCRIPTION OF ITS  PURPOSE,  THE
   17  BALANCE  AS OF THE CLOSE OF THIRD QUARTER OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
   18  FISCAL YEAR AND A BRIEF STATEMENT EXPLAINING ANY PLANS FOR  THE  USE  OF
   19  EACH  SUCH  RESERVE  FUND  FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR.  The board shall
   20  also append a list of all other school administrators  and  supervisors,
   21  if any, whose annual salary will be eighty-five thousand dollars or more
   22  in the ensuing school year, with the title of their positions and annual
   23  salary  identified;  provided  however, that the commissioner may adjust
   24  such salary level to reflect increases in administrative salaries  after
   25  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred ninety-eight. The board of education
   26  shall submit a copy of such list and statement, in a form prescribed  by
   27  the  commissioner,  of compensation to the commissioner within five days
   28  after their preparation.  The  commissioner  shall  compile  such  data,
   29  together with the data submitted pursuant to subdivision four of section
   30  sixteen  hundred eight of this chapter, into a single statewide compila-
   31  tion, which shall be made available to the  governor,  the  legislature,
   32  and other interested parties upon request.
   33    S 3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3653 to read
   34  as follows:
   35    S  3653.  RESERVES  FUNDED  BY  RESOLUTION.  IN  ADDITION TO ANY OTHER
   36  REQUIREMENTS, NO MONIES SHALL BE PAID OR TRANSFERRED  INTO  ANY  RESERVE
   37  FUND,  ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS CHAPTER OR ANY OTHER CHAPTER OF LAW,
   38  FOR THE PURPOSE OF INCREASING THE FUNDING OF SUCH RESERVE  FUND,  UNLESS
   39  EXPRESSLY  AUTHORIZED BY A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OR TRUS-
   40  TEES OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT.
   41    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
   42  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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