STATE OF NEW YORK
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8368
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 5, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BYNOE -- (at request of the State Education Depart-
ment) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the retention and
disposition of state education commissioner appeal and proceeding
records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 312 of the education law is amended to read as
2 follows:
3 § 312. Filed papers and copies thereof. The commissioner shall file[,
4 arrange in the order of time,] and [keep in his office, so that they may
5 be at all times accessible,] maintain all the [proceedings on every
6 appeal or petition to him under this article, including his decision]
7 decisions and orders [founded thereon] on every appeal or petition to
8 such commissioner under this article; and copies of all such [papers and
9 proceedings] decisions and orders, authenticated by [him] such commis-
10 sioner under [his] their seal of office, shall be evidence equally with
11 the originals. The commissioner shall also file and maintain all the
12 papers and pleadings underlying such decisions and orders. Such deci-
13 sions and orders and papers and pleadings shall be retained and disposed
14 of in accordance with section 57.05 of the arts and cultural affairs
15 law.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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