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Assembly Bill A8467

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that schools maintain an electronic checking transaction register and publish it on the school's website

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2009-A8467 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง305, Ed L

2009-A8467 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that schools maintain an electronic checking transaction register and publish it on the school's website.

2009-A8467 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8467

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. FIELDS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to requiring school
  districts and cooperative educational services boards to maintain  and
  make  available  electronically  transaction registers of the school's
  checking accounts

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

  Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 42 to read as follows:
  42.  (A)(1)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL, ON OR BEFORE JANUARY FIRST, TWO
THOUSAND TEN, DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM  WHICH  WILL  REQUIRE  ALL
SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  AND  ALL  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL SERVICES BOARDS TO
MAINTAIN TRANSACTION REGISTERS OF A DISTRICT'S CHECKING ACCOUNTS  IN  AN
ELECTRONIC  FORM WHICH IS READILY AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUBPARA-
GRAPH TWO OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. THE ELECTRONIC  CHECKING
ACCOUNT  TRANSACTION  REGISTERS  SHALL  INCLUDE ALL THOSE CHECKS WRITTEN
FROM A DISTRICT CHECKING ACCOUNT WHICH ARE NEITHER EXEMPT UNDER  ARTICLE
SIX  OF  THE  PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW, NOR FOR A STRICTLY PEDAGOGIC PURPOSE.
FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION THE  TERM  "PEDAGOGIC"  SHALL  MEAN
"PERTAINING TO TEACHING".
  (2)   THE  ELECTRONIC  CHECKING  ACCOUNT  TRANSACTION  REGISTERS  MUST
INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, FOR EACH CHECK WRITTEN FROM ANY DISTRICT
ACCOUNTS WHICH ARE NOT EXEMPTED BY SUBPARAGRAPH ONE OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH,
(I) THE TRANSACTION AMOUNT; (II) THE CHECK NUMBER; (III) THE NAME OF THE
PAYEE;  AND (IV) THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE CHECK WAS WRITTEN WHICH SHALL
BE PROVIDED IN A CLEAR AND COHERENT MANNER  USING  WORDS  WITH  EVERYDAY
MEANINGS  AND  WHICH SHALL NOT INCLUDE ABBREVIATIONS OR NUMERICAL REFER-
ENCES UNLESS SUCH ARE IMMEDIATELY EXPLAINED OR DEFINED.
  (B)(1) BEGINNING JUNE FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN  EVERY  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
AND COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES BOARD IN THE STATE SHALL PROMINENT-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11909-01-9

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