What's happening
This bill legalizes and validates late cost report filings by Hendrick Hudson central school district, restoring their eligibility for state aid on certain capital projects.
Why it matters
Prevents financial hardship for local taxpayers. by allowing the school district to regain state aid eligibility, thereby avoiding having to cover project costs entirely with local funds due to a missed reporting deadline.
Addresses bureaucratic errors without penalizing students or the community. , recognizing that the late filings were due to administrative mistakes rather than fraud or bad intent.
Sets a precedent for legislative flexibility. in cases where rigid procedural requirements could unjustly deprive public institutions of funding, especially when state-approved projects and proper spending can be clearly documented.
Requires accountability and oversight. by mandating that the late reports must be submitted, approved, and verified as accurate and legitimate before any state aid is restored, ensuring state funds are still properly managed.
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Validate School Project Funding
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History
- Substituted by S3927
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.289
- Rules report cal.289
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to education
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Validate School Project Spending
Vetoed · Sponsor Terrence P. Murphy
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5737
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to validate certain acts of the Hendrick Hudson central school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that the Hendrick Hudson central school district approved two capital improvement projects which are designated as project numbers 660203-0001-018, 660203-0001-019, 660203-0002-012, 660203-0002-013, 660203-0006-008, 660203-0006-009, 660203-0007-009, 660203-0008-010 and 660203-5005-005, and as project number 660203-7999-005. In addition, the projects were eligible for certain state aid. The legislature further finds that due to ministerial error, the required filing of the final cost reports for such projects were not made by such district in a timely manner making the district ineligible for certain aid. The legislature further finds that without such aid, the capital improvement projects will impose an additional, unanticipated hardship on district taxpayers.
§ 2. All the acts done and proceedings heretofore had and taken or caused to be had or taken by the Hendrick Hudson central school district and by all its officers or agents relating to or in connection with a certain final cost report to be filed with the state education department for project numbers 660203-0001-018, 660203-0001-019, 660203-0002- 012, 660203-0002-013, 660203-0006-008, 660203-0006-009, 660203-0007-009, 660203-0008-010 and 660203-5005-005, and project number 660203-7999-005, and all acts incidental thereto are hereby legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding any failure to comply with the approval and filing provisions of the education law or any other law or any other statutory authority, rule or regulation, in relation to any omissions, error, defect, irregularity or illegality in such proceedings had and taken, and provided further that any amount due and payable to
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the Hendrick Hudson central school district for school years prior to the 2016-2017 school year as a result of this act shall be paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph c of subdivision 5 of section 3604 of the education law.
§ 3. The education department is hereby directed to consider the approved costs of the aforementioned projects as valid and proper obligations of the Hendrick Hudson central school district provided that such school district:
(a) submitted the late or missing final project cost reports to the commissioner of education on or before December 31, 2017;
(b) such cost report is approved by the commissioner of education;
(c) all state funds expended by the school district, as documented in such cost reports, were properly expended for such capital projects in accordance with the terms and conditions for such projects as approved by the commissioner of education; and
(d) the failure to submit such reports in a timely manner was an inadvertent administrative or ministerial oversight by the school district, and there is no evidence of any fraudulent or other improper intent by such district.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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