N.Y. Education Law § 101-b: Paperwork reduction

§ 101-b. Paperwork reduction. 1. The commissioner shall be authorized

to receive and accept reports, plans, applications and all other

information required to be reported by statute or regulation through

electronic means. The commissioner shall accept hard copy non-electronic

filings or submissions if the school district is able to demonstrate

that complying with electronic submission requirements would create

undue hardship for the school district or some other good cause exists

that would make electronic submission extremely impractical for the

school district.

2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to review all existing

reports and plans that school districts and boards of cooperative

educational services are required to submit and by November first, two

thousand ten, the commissioner shall submit to the board of regents, the

governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the

senate, the director of the budget and the chairs of the respective

fiscal and education committees of the senate and assembly specific

recommendations to eliminate unnecessary or duplicative reporting

requirements; and where possible, recommendations to consolidate

reports, plans and other information required to be submitted to the

commissioner including which recommendations could be implemented

administratively and which would require statutory authorization.