Requires school districts, outside of any city having a population of 1,000,000 or more, to make their budgets and an itemized summary of expenditures and revenue available in printed form and on the internet if such a website is operated by the school district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4173
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 15, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. FLANAGAN, LAVALLE, VOLKER -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa-
tion
AN ACT to amend the education law, to require school districts to make
an itemized summary of their budgets, expenditures and revenue avail-
able to the public
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 1501-d
2 to read as follows:
3 § 1501-d. Availability of budget, expenditure and revenue information
4 to the public. Every school district, except a city school district in a
5 city having a population of one million or more, shall compile, publish,
6 update in a timely manner and make available to the public, the school
7 district budget, and an itemized summary of all expenditures of and
8 revenue received by such district. Such information shall be made avail-
9 able in printed form and on the school district internet website, if
10 such a website is operated by the school district. The commissioner is
11 authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as shall be neces-
12 sary to implement the provisions of this section.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
14 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law, provided that
15 effective immediately any rules and regulations necessary to implement
16 the provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and
17 directed to be completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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