Bill Text: NY S00318 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the NYS school taxpayers' protection act; requires the reporting of suspected corruption or conflicts of interest within the operation of a school district; requires the treasurer of each district to issue an annual report of all moneys received by the board and any expenditures; creates a compensation committee to oversee proposed contracts of all school district bargaining units, administrators and superintendents; creates the office of the state inspector general for education; prohibits retaliation by public school district employers where employees have made complaints of malfeasance; creates crime of defrauding a public pension plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-24 - PRINT NUMBER 318A [S00318 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00318-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 318--A                                              A. 104--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --
          recommitted to the Committee on Education in  accordance  with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once  and  referred
          to  the  Committee  on  Education  --  recommitted to the Committee on
          Education in accordance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, the executive law, the general munic-
          ipal  law, the  labor law, the penal law and the retirement and social
          security law, in relation to  enacting  the  "New  York  state  school
          taxpayers' protection act"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "New York state school taxpayers' protection act".
     3    §  2.  Legislative findings and intent. Public school districts in New
     4  York state have recently experienced  numerous  instances  of  financial
     5  scandals.  These scandals have been unprecedented in both the number and
     6  diversity of financial malfeasance. Furthermore, such scandals result in
     7  the diversion of hard-earned property taxpayers' money from their proper
     8  use in school instruction to improper and illegal purposes that  do  not
     9  further  the  school  districts' essential mission of educating New York
    10  children.   Therefore, the legislature finds that  it  is  necessary  to
    11  establish  a  new, independent state agency charged with the function of
    12  investigating allegations of corruption, financial improprieties, uneth-
    13  ical conduct, misconduct or other criminal conduct within public  school
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00717-02-6