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.
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