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Assembly Bill A10568

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Extends the date for school district and library elections until June 16, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

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2019-A10568 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8475
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education

2019-A10568 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends the date for school district and library elections until June 16, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019-A10568 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10568
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 3, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobson) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT in relation to extending the date for school district and library
   elections until June 16, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law  or  Executive
 Order  No.  202.26  and  as  a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, sections
 1804, 1906, 2002, 2022, 2601-a of  the  education  law,  to  the  extent
 necessary,  to  provide that the annual district meeting and election of
 every common, union free, central and central high school  district  and
 the  annual  meeting  of  every  city school district in a city having a
 population of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants was
 scheduled to be held on the third Tuesday of May, two thousand twenty is
 hereby adjourned and rescheduled until June 16,  2020,  which  shall  be
 deemed the statewide uniform voting day; and provided further, a library
 district  may  conduct  an election on June 16, 2020 if such election is
 managed by a school district.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16572-01-0

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