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- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1547
- Reported and committed to rules
- Referred to finance
- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.486
- Referred to finance
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Requires the budget submitted by the governor to include an itemization, by each individual school district, of appropriations for the support of school districts
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Amy Paulin
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4603
Title of bill
An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring itemization, by school district, of proposed appropriations to the education department for the support of school districts
Purpose
Requires the budget submitted by the governor to include an itemization, by each individual school district, of appropriations for the support of school districts.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Section 24 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: In each budget bill submitted annually by the governor, and in every amendment thereof submitted by the governor, which appropriates moneys to the education department for the support of school districts, there shall be included for each such appropriation, the apportionment thereof to each individual school district in the state. Section 2 is the effective date.
Justification
Prospective school aid runs are vitally important to the formulation of school budgets. Unfortunately, the release of these projections is not mandated by law. Their release as a part of the Executive Budget Proposal has served as an acknowledgment of the complex and time-consuming nature of school budgets. Due to the fact that they are not mandated by law, the governor has the ability to unfairly withhold them from his/her budget proposal and subject schools to a shorter amount of time in which to formulate a budget to be presented and voted upon by their district's voters. This bill would mandate the release of school aid run projections as a part of the executive's budget proposal. This would assure superintendents, school boards, teachers and parents of the projections that they rely on the state to provide to them to develop their school's budget.
Legislative history
New legislation.
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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