2019 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 1 - General Provisions
Article 3 - Education Department
Part 1 - General Provisions
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.