Senate Bill S1633

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Permits union free and central school district boards of education to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S1633 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5943
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1702 & 1804, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5846, A8163
2017-2018: S6599, S8920, A881, A11053
2021-2022: S1792, A9172
2023-2024: S435, A1195

2019-S1633 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections.

2019-S1633 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1633 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1633
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the  establishment  of
   school  election  wards  in  union  free  school districts and central
   school districts

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1702 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A
 BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OF A UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY, BY RESOLUTION
 AND SUBJECT TO A MANDATORY REFERENDUM, ESTABLISH SCHOOL  ELECTION  WARDS
 FOR  PURPOSES  OF  ELECTING INDIVIDUAL TRUSTEES. THERE SHALL BE AT LEAST
 THREE, BUT NO MORE THAN NINE, SCHOOL  ELECTION  WARDS  WITHIN  A  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT.  ONE  TRUSTEE  SHALL BE CHOSEN FROM EACH WARD BY THE QUALIFIED
 VOTERS THEREIN.   WITHIN SUCH  RESOLUTION,  A  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  MAY
 REQUIRE  THAT  A TRUSTEE ELECTED TO REPRESENT A WARD SHALL BE A RESIDENT
 OF SUCH WARD. SUCH RESOLUTION  SHALL  ALSO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  SIGNATURE
 REQUIREMENTS  FOR  NOMINATING  PETITIONS  CONSISTENT WITH THE APPLICABLE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER.
   B. (I) A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, WHICH SHALL  BE  PASSED
 NO LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS PRIOR TO A RELATED REFERENDUM BEING
 PLACED  BEFORE  THE  QUALIFIED  VOTERS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DURING THE
 ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION, SHALL INCLUDE AN  ASSESSMENT  AND  FINDING,
 WHICH  SHALL  TAKE  INTO  ACCOUNT  ANY  HISTORIC  DISENFRANCHISEMENT  OR
 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST  ANY  GROUP  OF  INDIVIDUALS  WITHIN  THE  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT  BASED  UPON  RACE, GENDER, ETHNICITY, RELIGION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC
 STATUS, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION, INCLUDING THAT NO  DISENFRANCHISEMENT  OR
 DISCRIMINATION  WOULD  RESULT  FROM  THE ADOPTION OF THE PROPOSED RESOL-
 UTION. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL CONDUCT NO FEWER THAN  THREE  PUBLIC
 HEARINGS ON SUCH RESOLUTION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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