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                                  6598

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 22, 2011
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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:

  Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of  section  2022  of
the  education law, the section heading as amended by section 23 of part
A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997 and subdivision  1  as  amended  by
section 8 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, are amended and a
new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:
  Vote  on  school  district  budgets,  ON  BOND  RESOLUTIONS and on the
election of school district trustees and board of education members.  1.
Notwithstanding any  law,  rule  or  regulation  to  the  contrary,  the
election  of  trustees  or  members of the board of education, [and] the
vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated
expenditures, AND THE VOTE UPON A BOND RESOLUTION, in any common  school
district, union free school district, central school district or central
high school district shall be held at the annual meeting and election on
the third Tuesday in May, provided, however, that such 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. When such election
or vote is taken by recording the ayes and noes of the qualified  voters
attending,  a  majority of the qualified voters present and voting, by a
hand or voice vote, may determine to take up the question of voting  the
necessary  funds  to meet the estimated expenditures for a specific item
separately, and the qualified voters present and voting may increase the
amount of any estimated expenditures or  reduce  the  same,  except  for
teachers' salaries, and the ordinary contingent expenses of the schools.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09915-01-1
              

A. 6598                             2

The  sole  trustee,  board  of  trustees  or board of education of every
common, union free, central or central high school  district  and  every
city  school  district to which this article applies shall hold a budget
hearing  not  less  than  seven nor more than fourteen days prior to the
annual meeting and election or  special  district  meeting  at  which  a
school  budget  vote  will  occur,  and shall prepare and present to the
voters at such budget hearing a proposed school district budget for  the
ensuing school year.
  1-A.  ANY  BOND  RESOLUTION  VOTED UPON PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF
THIS SECTION MAY ONLY  BE  RESUBMITTED  TO  THE  VOTERS  OF  THE  SCHOOL
DISTRICT ONE TIME SUBSEQUENT TO SUCH VOTE.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.