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PRINTER'S NO. 1442
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1112
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY R. BROWN, BAKER, SCHLEGEL CULVER, DAVIS, DIAMOND,
GILLEN, GRELL, GROVE, A. HARRIS, HEFFLEY, LAWRENCE, MASSER,
MILLARD, MURT, D. PARKER, PEIFER, PICKETT, QUIGLEY, SAYLOR,
TOPPER, WARD, WATSON AND WHEATLEY, MAY 5, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MAY 5, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," in school districts, providing for
data collection reduction.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 221.2. Data Collection Reduction.--(a) The State
Board, in consultation with the advisory committee, shall:
(1) Review public school entity data collection requirements
existing as of the effective date of this section in the areas
of finance, human resources, food services, transportation,
child accounting, athletics, health and special education.
(2) Identify those data collection requirements that are
redundant, overly burdensome or no longer necessary.
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(3) Publish a list of the data collection requirements
identified under paragraph (2) in the Pennsylvania Bulletin
within ninety (90) days of the effective date of this section.
(b) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
department shall suspend all public school entity data
collection requirements identified under subsection (a)(2)
within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the effective date
of this section.
(2) Once a data collection requirement has been eliminated
under this section, the department may not resume the collection
of any data subject to the eliminated data collection
requirement.
(c) (1) Within thirty (30) days of the effective date of
this section, the State Board shall establish an advisory
committee consisting of:
(i) The Secretary of Education or a designee.
(ii) The chairman and minority chairman of the Education
Committee of the Senate.
(iii) The chairman and minority chairman of the Education
Committee of the House of Representatives.
(iv) The following members, to be appointed by the State
Board in consultation with education associations representing
school districts, intermediate units, charter school entities
and area vocational-technical schools:
(A) Three school district business managers.
(B) Three intermediate unit business managers.
(C) Three charter school entity business managers.
(D) Three area vocational-technical school business
managers.
(2) The advisory committee shall hold its first meeting
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within forty-five (45) days of the effective date of this
section.
(3) The State Board shall provide administrative support,
meeting space and any other assistance required by the advisory
committee to carry out its duties under this section.
(d) For all new public school entity data collection
requirements instituted after the effective date of this section
that are not the result of new legislation enacted by the
General Assembly, the department shall provide the following
information to all public school entities and to the General
Assembly sixty (60) days prior to the first deadline for any new
data collection requirement:
(1) a justification for the data collection, including a
statement indicating why the data collection is necessary for
the proper performance of the department's functions;
(2) an explanation of how the department will use the data
collected;
(3) an explanation of how the department will share the data
with public school entities;
(4) a statement affirming that the data collection will not
impose any unjustified costs on public school entities or
require duplication of existing data collection requirements;
and
(5) a statement of the estimated costs to public school
entities for complying with the data collection requirement,
including the cost of staff time, training and software.
(e) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Advisory committee" shall mean the advisory committee
established under subsection (c).
(2) "Charter school entity" shall mean a charter school,
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regional charter school or cyber charter school as defined in
section 1703-A.
(3) "Department" shall mean the Department of Education of
the Commonwealth.
(4) "Public school entity" shall mean any of the following:
(i) An area vocational-technical school.
(ii) A school district.
(iii) A charter school entity.
(iv) An intermediate unit.
(5) "State Board" shall mean the State Board of Education.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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