Senate Bill S1670

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing school election wards in the Chester Union Free School District

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  • 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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2021-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4159
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1702, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S5884, A7858

2021-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes school election wards in the Chester Union Free School District.

2021-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1670 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1670
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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 the Chester Union Free School District
 
   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, THE
 BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CHESTER 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
 THE  SCHOOL  DISTRICT. ONE TRUSTEE SHALL BE CHOSEN FROM EACH WARD BY THE
 QUALIFIED VOTERS THEREIN.  WITHIN SUCH RESOLUTION, THE BOARD  OF  EDUCA-
 TION  MAY  REQUIRE THAT A TRUSTEE ELECTED TO REPRESENT A WARD SHALL BE A
 RESIDENT OF SUCH WARD. SUCH RESOLUTION SHALL ALSO PROVIDE FOR THE SIGNA-
 TURE REQUIREMENTS FOR NOMINATING PETITIONS CONSISTENT WITH THE  APPLICA-
 BLE 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.
                                                            LBD05869-01-1
              

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