Bill Text: NY A05811 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a school district vote on a bond resolution shall take place on the third Tuesday in May in conjunction with the school budget vote; provides that such bond resolution vote may only be resubmitted to the voters of the school district one time subsequent to such vote.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A05811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05811-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 5167                                                  A. 5811

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                SENATE - ASSEMBLY

                                    February 25, 2021
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  providing  that  a
          school  bond  resolution vote shall take place in conjunction with the
          school budget vote

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.   The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 2022 of
     2  the education law, as amended by section 7 of part A of  chapter  97  of
     3  the laws of 2011, are amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read
     4  as follows:
     5    Vote  on  school  district  budgets,  on  bond  resolutions and on the
     6  election of school district trustees and board of education members.  1.
     7  Notwithstanding  any  law,  rule  or  regulation  to  the  contrary, the
     8  election of trustees or members of the board  of  education,  [and]  the
     9  vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated
    10  expenditures,  and  the  vote  upon  a bond resolution, except where the
    11  board shall by unanimous vote declare that an emergency exists  and  the
    12  commissioner  determines that the best interests of the district require
    13  that the vote on the bond resolution be held on a different date, in any
    14  common school district,  union  free  school  district,  central  school
    15  district  or  central  high  school district shall be held at the annual
    16  meeting and election on the third Tuesday  in  May,  provided,  however,
    17  that  such  election  shall  be held on the second Tuesday in May if the
    18  commissioner at the request of a local school board certifies  no  later
    19  than March first that such election would conflict with religious obser-
    20  vances.  The  sole  trustee,  board of trustees or board of education of
    21  every common, union free, central or central high  school  district  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05696-01-1
        S. 5167                             2                            A. 5811

     1  every  city  school  district to which this article applies shall hold a
     2  budget hearing not less than seven nor more than fourteen days prior  to
     3  the  annual  meeting and election or special district meeting at which a
     4  school  budget  vote  will  occur,  and shall prepare and present to the
     5  voters at such budget hearing a proposed school district budget for  the
     6  ensuing school year.
     7    1-a.  Any  bond  resolution  voted upon pursuant to subdivision one of
     8  this section may only  be  resubmitted  to  the  voters  of  the  school
     9  district one time subsequent to such vote.
    10    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.