STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1397

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblyman BAGGER)

ADOPTED: MARCH 28, 1996

      These amendments clarify that the terms and conditions of the employment contract between boards of education sharing a school business administrator and the business administrator shall be determined by the boards and the business administrator. The amendments also provide that any guidelines which are developed to effectuate the bill's provisions will be developed by the Commissioner of Education as opposed to the State Board of Education.