Bill Text: NY S08409 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Reduces the signature requirement for petitions for candidates for the school board of the city of Buffalo.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9423A [S08409 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08409-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8409--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 24, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reducing the signature
          requirement  for  petitions for candidates for the school board of the
          city of Buffalo

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

     1    Section  1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph d of subdivision 10 of section
     2  2553 of the education law, as amended by chapter  561  of  the  laws  of
     3  2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  Such election for such office shall be governed by the provisions
     5  of the election law in the same manner as candidates for office general-
     6  ly to be elected by the voters of the city of Buffalo.   Notwithstanding
     7  section 6-142 of the election law, each such candidate for election as a
     8  member of the board of education from a city school subdistrict shall be
     9  required to file a petition containing signatures of at least [five] two
    10  hundred registered voters of such city school subdistrict in which he is
    11  a candidate and each candidate for election to the board of education by
    12  the  voters at large shall be required to file a petition containing the
    13  signatures of at least [one thousand] four hundred registered voters  of
    14  the city of Buffalo.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14355-04-2