Assembly Actions -
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Jun 04, 2018 |
referred to education |
Assembly Bill A11074
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SKOUFIS
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-A11074 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-A11074 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 11074 I N A S S E M B L Y June 4, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Skoufis) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the location of the annual school district elections THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 2002 of the education law, as amended by chapter 801 of the laws of 1953, subdivision 1 as amended by section 5 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: § 2002. Time and place of annual meeting. [1.] The annual meeting and election of each school district shall be held on the third Tuesday of May in each year, provided, however that such annual meeting and election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the commissioner at the request of a local school board certifies no later than March first that such election would conflict with religious observances. Unless the hour and place thereof shall have been fixed by a vote of a previous district meeting, the same shall be held in the schoolhouse, OR ANY BUILDING OWNED OR LEASED BY THE DISTRICT, at seven-thirty [o'clock in the evening] P.M. in the case of a school district that is not divided into election districts and conducts its election or vote by recording the ayes or noes of the qualified voters attending, or, in the case of all other districts, during at least six consecutive hours after six a.m., two of which hours shall be after six p.m. as determined by resolution of the trustees or board of education, provided, however, that the trustees or board of education of any school district that conducted its annual meeting at seven-thirty p.m. in nineteen hundred ninety-seven may conduct its annual election and budget vote at such time in nineteen hundred ninety-eight. If a district possesses more than one schoolhouse OR BUILDING, OR LEASES MORE THAN ONE BUILDING, it shall be held in the one usually employed for that purpose, unless the trus- tees or board of education designate another, provided that if the school district is divided into election districts such annual meeting and election shall be held at such place in each election district as the board of education may designate. If the district possesses no EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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