Bill Text: NY S09183 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the trustees of the Tuckahoe Common School District to submit a proposition to reorganize as the Tuckahoe-Shinnecock Union Free School District.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A10042A [S09183 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09183-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9183--B

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  in  relation to authorizing the trustees of the Tuckahoe Common
          School District, county of Suffolk, to submit  a  proposition  to  the
          qualified  voters  of such district to reorganize such school district
          as a union free school district; and providing for the repeal of  such
          provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the  contrary,  the
     2  board  of  trustees  of  the  Tuckahoe Common School District, county of
     3  Suffolk, may, upon its own motion, cause to be submitted at  the  annual
     4  meeting  and  election  or  special meeting, a proposition to reorganize
     5  such school district as a union free school district to be known as  the
     6  Tuckahoe-Shinnecock Union Free School District.
     7    § 2. No such proposition shall be approved by the board of trustees of
     8  the  Tuckahoe  Common  School  District  until  the  board  conducts and
     9  approves a feasibility study of the  reorganization.  Such  study  shall
    10  include at a minimum: (a) current and projected student enrollments; (b)
    11  current and projected professional staffing plans; (c) a plan for educa-
    12  tional  programs and curricula in the proposed district;  (d) a plan for
    13  transportation in the proposed district; and (e) the fiscal implications
    14  of the reorganization including changes in state aid, expenditures,  and
    15  local tax effort.
    16    §  3.  Upon the approval of the proposition by the qualified voters of
    17  the Tuckahoe Common School district, the commissioner of education shall
    18  issue an order establishing the union free school district.  Such  order
    19  shall  specify the effective date of the order, which shall not be later
    20  than 60 days after the approval of the proposition.
    21    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    22  deemed repealed June 30, 2026.

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