Bill Text: NY A06762 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes certain technical amendments to provisions granting the commissioner of education and education department additional authority over the Roosevelt union free school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-05 - enacting clause stricken [A06762 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A06762-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6762 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 17, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend chapter 33 of the laws of 2002, relating to granting the commissioner of education and the education department additional authority over the Roosevelt union free school district, in relation to making certain technical amendments thereto THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 3 of chapter 33 of the laws of 2002, relating to 2 granting the commissioner of education and the education department 3 additional authority over the Roosevelt union free school district, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 S 3. Additional authority of commissioner of education. 1. Notwith- 6 standing any other provision of law, rule, or regulation to the contra- 7 ry, the commissioner of education shall have the following powers, in 8 addition to those currently granted the commissioner under the education 9 law, and may delegate such powers except where the provisions of this 10 act specifically require the commissioner to exercise such powers and 11 duties: 12 (a) To appoint and supervise the superintendent of schools of the 13 Roosevelt union free school district, and to remove the superintendent 14 in accordance with the terms and procedures in the superintendent's 15 contract, as if such removal were by the board of education, provided 16 that the power to appoint and remove the superintendent shall not be 17 delegated to any other person; 18 (b) To disapprove appointments of assistant or associate superinten- 19 dents of schools, building principals and other school administers and 20 supervisors, including tenure appointments; and 21 (c) To exercise fiscal control over the Roosevelt union free school 22 district in accordance with section four of this act. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10421-01-3 A. 6762 2 1 2. The commissioner of education shall have the additional authority 2 outlined in this section until June 30, [2011. Provided, however, that 3 if the commissioner of education determines that the Roosevelt union 4 free school district has not demonstrated sufficient improvement to 5 warrant termination of the additional authority, the commissioner of 6 education shall be authorized to continue to exercise such authority 7 until June 30, 2013] 2016. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.