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A5579Assembly2017-2018 Session

Make School Budgets Public

Official title

“Requires school districts to make their budgets and an itemized summary of expenditures and revenue available in printed form and on the internet”

Sponsor Steven EnglebrightAD-4+2 co-sponsorsAffects Education
Status
In Assembly Committee
Education
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Education

What's happening

This bill requires most New York school districts to publicly share detailed, updated budget, spending, and revenue information.

Why it matters

  1. Enables parents, taxpayers, and community members to see how their local school district is allocating and spending funds, supporting more informed civic engagement and oversight.

  2. By requiring timely updates and detailed itemization of both expenditures and revenue, it makes it harder for districts to obscure spending patterns or sources of income, helping to deter misuse or misallocation of resources.

  3. Mandating both printed and online access (when a website exists) addresses digital divide concerns, ensuring those without internet can still obtain critical financial information.

  4. Empowering the state education commissioner to set implementation rules could help standardize the format and timeliness of disclosures across districts, making comparisons and analysis more feasible for watchdogs, journalists, and the public.

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Make School Budgets Public

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Steven Englebright

Assembly Member · Assembly District 4

History

  1. Referred to education
  2. Referred to education

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

5579

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

February 10, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, RIVERA, GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, to require school districts to make an itemized summary of their budgets, expenditures and revenue available to the public

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 1501-d to read as follows:

§ 1501-d. Availability of budget, expenditure and revenue information to the public. Every school district, except a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more, shall compile, publish, update in a timely manner and make available to the public, the school district budget, and an itemized summary of all expenditures of and revenue received by such district. Such information shall be made available in printed form and on the school district internet website, if such a website is operated by the school district. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law, provided that effective immediately any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such date.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

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