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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3218
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 24, 2013
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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-c to
2 read as follows:
3 § 2-c. 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 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 810 of the general municipal law, as
13 amended by chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as
14 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.
LBD06078-01-3
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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 shall be deemed officers or employees of the county, city, village or
5 town for whose benefit such agency or authority is established.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
7 it shall have become a law.
