Assembly Bill A3733A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Reforms aspects of local government and school accountability

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A3733 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1608 & 1716, add §3653, Ed L; amd §§6-e, 6-h & 6-r, Gen Muni L

2013-A3733 - Summary

Reforms aspects of local government and school accountability; requires notice of reserve funds and requires resolution for reserve.

2013-A3733 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3733

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- (at request of the State Comptroller) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to requiring notice of
  reserve funds, reserves funded by resolution and the internal audit of
  certain school districts; and to amend the general municipal  law,  in
  relation  to  tax  stabilization reserves, reserves for bonded indebt-
  edness, and authorizing school districts  and  boards  of  cooperative
  educational  services  to  establish  retirement  contribution reserve
  funds for the purposes of the  New  York  state  teachers'  retirement
  system

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Subdivision 5 of section 1608 of  the  education  law,  as
amended  by  section  5 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
amended to read as follows:
  5. The trustee or board of trustees shall append to the  statement  of
estimated expenditures a detailed statement of the total compensation to
be paid to the superintendent of schools, and any assistant or associate
superintendents  of  schools  in  the  ensuing  school year, including a
delineation of the salary, annualized cost of benefits and  any  in-kind
or  other form of remuneration, AND A SCHEDULE OF RESERVE FUNDS, SETTING
FORTH THE NAME OF EACH RESERVE FUND, A DESCRIPTION OF ITS  PURPOSE,  THE
BALANCE  AS OF THE CLOSE OF THIRD QUARTER OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
FISCAL YEAR AND A BRIEF STATEMENT EXPLAINING ANY PLANS FOR  THE  USE  OF
EACH  SUCH RESERVE FUND FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR.  The trustees shall
also append a list of all other school administrators  and  supervisors,
if any, whose annual salary will be eighty-five thousand dollars or more
in the ensuing school year, with the title of their positions and annual
salary  identified;  provided  however, that the commissioner may adjust
such salary level to reflect increases in administrative salaries  after
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-eight. The trustees shall submit

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03379-02-3
              

2013-A3733A - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1608 & 1716, add §3653, Ed L; amd §§6-e, 6-h & 6-r, Gen Muni L

2013-A3733A - Summary

Reforms aspects of local government and school accountability; requires notice of reserve funds and requires resolution for reserve.

2013-A3733A - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 3733--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- (at request of the State Comptroller) --
  read  once  and  referred  to  the Committee on Education -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  requiring  notice  of
  reserve  funds;  and in relation to reserves funded by resolution; and
  to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  tax  stabilization
  reserves,  reserves  for  bonded  indebtedness, and authorizing school
  districts and boards of cooperative educational services to  establish
  retirement contribution reserve funds for the purposes of the New York
  state teachers' retirement system

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Subdivision 5 of section 1608 of  the  education  law,  as
amended  by  section  5 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
amended to read as follows:
  5. The trustee or board of trustees shall append to the  statement  of
estimated expenditures a detailed statement of the total compensation to
be paid to the superintendent of schools, and any assistant or associate
superintendents  of  schools  in  the  ensuing  school year, including a
delineation of the salary, annualized cost of benefits and  any  in-kind
or  other form of remuneration, AND A SCHEDULE OF RESERVE FUNDS, SETTING
FORTH THE NAME OF EACH RESERVE FUND, A DESCRIPTION OF ITS  PURPOSE,  THE
BALANCE  AS OF THE CLOSE OF THIRD QUARTER OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
FISCAL YEAR AND A BRIEF STATEMENT EXPLAINING ANY PLANS FOR  THE  USE  OF
EACH  SUCH RESERVE FUND FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR.  The trustees shall
also append a list of all other school administrators  and  supervisors,
if any, whose annual salary will be eighty-five thousand dollars or more
in the ensuing school year, with the title of their positions and annual
salary  identified;  provided  however, that the commissioner may adjust
such salary level to reflect increases in administrative salaries  after

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03379-04-3
              

2013-A3733B (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1608 & 1716, add §3653, Ed L; amd §§6-e, 6-h & 6-r, Gen Muni L

2013-A3733B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reforms aspects of local government and school accountability; requires notice of reserve funds and requires resolution for reserve.

2013-A3733B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 3733--B

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- (at request of the State Comptroller) --
  read  once  and  referred  to  the Committee on Education -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee -- 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  commit-
  tee

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to requiring notice of
  reserve funds and reserves funded by resolution

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.    Subdivision  5 of section 1608 of the education law, as
amended by section 5 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws  of  1997,  is
amended to read as follows:
  5.  The  trustee or board of trustees shall append to the statement of
estimated expenditures a detailed statement of the total compensation to
be paid to the superintendent of schools, and any assistant or associate
superintendents of schools in  the  ensuing  school  year,  including  a
delineation  of  the salary, annualized cost of benefits and any in-kind
or other form of remuneration, AND A SCHEDULE OF RESERVE FUNDS,  SETTING
FORTH  THE  NAME OF EACH RESERVE FUND, A DESCRIPTION OF ITS PURPOSE, THE
BALANCE AS OF THE CLOSE OF THIRD QUARTER OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL  DISTRICT
FISCAL  YEAR  AND  A BRIEF STATEMENT EXPLAINING ANY PLANS FOR THE USE OF
EACH SUCH RESERVE FUND FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR.  The trustees  shall
also  append  a list of all other school administrators and supervisors,
if any, whose annual salary will be eighty-five thousand dollars or more
in the ensuing school year, with the title of their positions and annual
salary identified; provided however, that the  commissioner  may  adjust
such  salary level to reflect increases in administrative salaries after
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-eight. The trustees shall submit
a copy of such list and statement, in a form prescribed by  the  commis-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03379-05-4
              

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