File #: Int 0015-2014    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of education to report annually on revenues received from the Fund for Public Schools.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 2/4/2014
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to report annually on revenues received from the Fund for Public Schools.
Sponsors: Stephen T. Levin, Margaret S. Chin, Andrew Cohen, Peter A. Koo, Mark Levine, Annabel Palma, Jumaane D. Williams, Corey D. Johnson, Rosie Mendez
Council Member Sponsors: 9

Int. No. 15

 

By Council Members Levin, Chin, Cohen, Koo, Levine, Palma, Williams, Johnson and Mendez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to report annually on revenues received from the Fund for Public Schools.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new title 21-A to read as follows:

Title 21-A. Education

Chapter 1. Definitions

Chapter 2. Fund for Public Schools

 

Chapter 1. Definitions.

§21-950 Definitions. Whenever used in this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

a. “Chancellor” shall mean the chancellor of the New York city department of education.

b. “Department” shall mean the New York city department of education.

c. “Student” shall mean any pupil under the age of twenty-one under the jurisdiction of the

New York city department of education.

Chapter 2.Fund for Public Schools.

§21-951 Annual reporting on revenues received. a. Not later than the fifteenth day of December of the year 2014 and annually thereafter, not later than the fifteenth day of December, the department shall submit to the council a report regarding the total revenues received from the Fund for Public Schools, for the preceding school year. Such report shall include the reasons why such revenue was sought and how such revenue was disbursed by the department. Such report shall also include information regarding the programmatic priorities for the Fund for Public Schools and shall include details regarding which programs received funding in whole, or in part, from the Fund for Public Schools and shall also include details regarding the specific funding allocation each such program received.     

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately after its enactment into law.

 

 

 

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