Senate Bill S3486

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Limits the time periods when a special district meeting for the purpose of voting on a school bond may be conducted

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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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2021-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §416, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7584
2019-2020: S986

2021-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the time periods when a special district meeting for the purpose of voting on a school bond may be conducted.

2021-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3486
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- 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  limiting  the  time
   periods when a special district meeting for the purpose of voting on a
   school bond may be conducted

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section  416  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  171  of  the  laws  of 1996, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. No addition to or change of site or purchase of a new site  or  tax
 for the purchase of any new site or structure, or for grading or improv-
 ing a school site, or for the purchase of an addition to the site of any
 schoolhouse,  or  for  the  purchase of lands and buildings for agricul-
 tural, athletic, playground or social center purposes, or  for  building
 any  new  schoolhouse  or for the erection of an addition to any school-
 house already built, or for the payment or refunding of  an  outstanding
 bonded  indebtedness, shall be voted at any such meeting in a union free
 school district or a city school district which conducts  annual  budget
 votes  in  accordance with article forty-one of this chapter pursuant to
 section twenty-six hundred one-a of this chapter, unless a notice by the
 board of education stating that such tax will be proposed, and  specify-
 ing  the  object  thereof  and the amount to be expended therefor, shall
 have been given in the manner provided herein for the notice of an annu-
 al meeting. In a common school district the notice of a special  meeting
 to authorize any of the improvements enumerated in this section shall be
 given as provided in section two thousand six. The board of education of
 a  union  free  school district or a city school district which conducts
 annual budget votes in accordance with article forty-one of this chapter
 pursuant to section twenty-six hundred one-a of this chapter, may deter-
 mine that the vote upon any question to be submitted at a special  meet-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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