STATE OF NEW YORK
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5568
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 28, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring school
districts to provide public access to school budgets upon request
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1608 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 640 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Such statement shall be completed at least seven days before the
5 budget hearing at which it is to be presented and copies thereof shall
6 be prepared and made available, upon request and at the school district
7 offices, at any public library or free association library within the
8 district and on the school district's internet website, if one exists,
9 to residents within the district [during the period of fourteen days]
10 immediately preceding the annual meeting and election or special
11 district meeting at which the budget vote will occur and at such meeting
12 or hearing. The board shall also as a part of the notice required by
13 section two thousand three of this chapter give notice of the date, time
14 and place of the budget hearing and that a copy of such statement may be
15 obtained by any resident in the district at each schoolhouse in the
16 district in which school is maintained during certain designated hours
17 on each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday [during the four-
18 teen days] immediately preceding such meeting. The board shall include
19 notice of the availability of such statement at least once during the
20 school year in any district-wide mailing distributed.
21 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1716 of the education law, as amended
22 by chapter 640 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
23 2. Such statement shall be completed at least seven days before the
24 budget hearing at which it is to be presented and copies thereof shall
25 be prepared and made available, upon request and at the school district
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 offices, at any public library or free association library within the
2 district and on the school district's internet website, if one exists,
3 to residents within the district [during the period of fourteen days]
4 immediately preceding the annual meeting and election or special
5 district meeting at which the budget vote will occur and at such meeting
6 or hearing. The board shall also as a part of the notice required by
7 section two thousand four of this chapter give notice of the date, time
8 and place of the budget hearing and that a copy of such statement may be
9 obtained by any resident in the district at each schoolhouse in the
10 district in which school is maintained during certain designated hours
11 on each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday [during the four-
12 teen days] immediately preceding such meeting. The board shall include
13 notice of the availability of such statement at least once during the
14 school year in any district-wide mailing distributed.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
