Bill Text: NY A01775 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to education [A01775 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01775-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1775

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A.  BARCLAY, DeSTEFANO, HAWLEY, MANKTELOW -- 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-f to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  2-f.  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  section  5  of part J of chapter 59 of the laws of 2013, is
    14  amended to read as 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.
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        A. 1775                             2

     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  established  by  this  chapter  or created by the public authorities law
     5  shall be deemed officers or employees of the county, city,  village,  or
     6  town  for  whose  benefit  such  agency  or  authority is established or
     7  created.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.