Senate Bill S2511

                             
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                                   2511
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to required training  for
   school district officers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2102-a of the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  388  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. a. Every trustee or voting member of a  board  of  education  of  a
 school  district or a board of cooperative educational services, elected
 or appointed for a term beginning on or after July first,  two  thousand
 five,  shall,  within  the  first year of [his or her] SUCH TRUSTEE'S OR
 VOTING MEMBER'S term, complete a minimum of six hours of training on the
 financial oversight, accountability and fiduciary responsibilities of  a
 school board member.
   b.  In addition to the training required by paragraph a of this subdi-
 vision, every trustee or voting member of a  board  of  education  of  a
 school  district or a board of cooperative educational services, elected
 or appointed for a [first] term beginning on or after the first of  July
 next  succeeding the effective date of this paragraph, shall, within the
 first year of [his or her]  SUCH  TRUSTEE'S  OR  VOTING  MEMBER'S  term,
 complete  a  training  course  to  acquaint [him or her] SUCH TRUSTEE OR
 VOTING MEMBER with the powers, functions and duties of boards of  educa-
 tion,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO, RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADOPTION OF
 CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR  COURSES  OF  STUDY  REQUIRED
 UNDER  THIS  CHAPTER,  AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADOPTION OF CURRICULUM AND
 INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ALIGNED WITH ALL NEW YORK STATE LEARNING  STAND-
 ARDS,  as  well as the powers and duties of other governing and adminis-
 trative authorities affecting  public  education.  SUCH  TRAINING  SHALL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 INCLUDE  ANY  NEW  OR UPDATED LAWS, RULES OR REGULATIONS RELEVANT TO THE
 REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   c.  [Upon demonstration of compliance, no trustee or member of a board
 of education or a board of cooperative  educational  services  shall  be
 required  to repeat the training requirements provided for in paragraphs
 a and b of this subdivision.] Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
 require a member of a central high school district board or a member  of
 a  board  of  cooperative educational services to complete such require-
 ments if such member has already completed such requirements as a member
 of a board of a component school  district.  [Nothing  in  this  section
 shall  be  deemed  to  require  trustees or voting members of a board of
 education of a school district or a  board  of  cooperative  educational
 services to complete the requirements of paragraph b of this subdivision
 if such trustee or member is seated or appointed on or before the effec-
 tive  date  of  the chapter of the laws of two thousand ten that amended
 this subdivision.]
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.