Bill Text: NY A05059 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to intervention in school districts with chronic fiscal mismanagement and/or in chronic fiscal distress.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-23 - print number 5059a [A05059 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05059-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5059--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 11, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- (at request of the State Education Department) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to intervention in school districts with chronic fiscal mismanagement and/or in chronic fiscal distress The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 211-g 2 to read as follows: 3 § 211-g. Intervention in school districts with chronic fiscal misman- 4 agement and/or in chronic fiscal distress. 1. Stage one fiscal at-risk 5 status. a. The commissioner shall identify as being in stage one fiscal 6 at-risk status a school district in which the board of education has 7 failed to exercise appropriate fiscal management of the school district 8 by failing to take actions necessary to keep the school district budget 9 in balance and/or maintain an appropriate fund balance for a period of 10 at least two school years while maintaining appropriate educational 11 programming; provided that, in the case of a school district that meets 12 the criteria for stage one fiscal at-risk status and has been designated 13 as a district requiring academic progress and/or a focus district for 14 eight or more years and has nine or more schools identified as persis- 15 tently lowest-achieving schools, schools under registration review or 16 focus or priority schools or schools for comprehensive support and 17 improvement or schools required to implement a targeted support and 18 improvement plan, the commissioner may immediately identify such 19 district as being in stage two fiscal intervention status pursuant to 20 subdivision two of this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08743-06-6
