General Assembly Raised Bill No. 998
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 3505
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 998
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 3505
*03505_______ED_*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
AN ACT CONCERNING REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER BUDGETS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, the budget for each regional educational service center shall be a separate budgeted agency from the Department of Education.
Sec. 2. Section 10-66g of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2013):
(a) Each board of a regional educational service center shall submit a yearly budget and projected revenue statement to each member board of education and to the State Board of Education. The accounts and financial records of all boards of regional educational service centers shall be audited annually in the same manner as the accounts of local or regional boards of education and copies provided to each member board of education and to the State Board of Education. Each board of a regional educational service center shall make such yearly budget and projected revenue statement and such annual financial audit available on its Internet web site.
(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Education shall annually submit to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, a report containing (1) the yearly budget and projected revenue statement of each regional educational service center, submitted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, (2) the annual financial audit for each regional educational service center, conducted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, (3) all sources and amounts of state grants received by each regional educational service center for the prior fiscal year, and (4) all amounts and sources of private funding received by each regional educational service center for the prior fiscal year. The department shall make such report available on its Internet web site.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Sec. 2 July 1, 2013 10-66g
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
Sec. 2
July 1, 2013
10-66g
Statement of Purpose:
To improve the understanding of the budgets of regional educational service centers by requiring the budget for each regional educational service center to be a separate line item in the state budget act and to require the Department of Education to submit an annual report regarding the budgets of regional educational service centers to the General Assembly.
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