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Senate Bill S4853

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides public school districts with the authority to decline or change a school building's designation as a polling place

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2021-S4853 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2002 & 2604, Ed L

2021-S4853 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides public school districts with the authority to decline or change a school building's designation as a polling place.

2021-S4853 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4853 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4853
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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  providing  public
   school   districts  the  authority  to  decline  or  change  a  school
   building's designation as a polling location

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 2002 of the education law, as
 amended by section 5 of part C of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  1998,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  annual  meeting and election of each school district shall be
 held on the third Tuesday of May in each year,  provided,  however  that
 such  annual meeting and 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  reli-
 gious  observances.  Unless  the  hour and place thereof shall have been
 fixed by a vote of a previous district meeting, the same shall  be  held
 in the schoolhouse at seven-thirty o'clock in the evening in the case of
 a  school  district  that  is  not  divided  into election districts and
 conducts its election or vote by recording the ayes or noes of the qual-
 ified voters attending, or, in the case of all other  districts,  during
 at  least six consecutive hours after six a.m., two of which hours shall
 be after six p.m. as determined by resolution of the trustees  or  board
 of education, provided, however, that the trustees or board of education
 of any school district that conducted its annual meeting at seven-thirty
 p.m.  in  nineteen  hundred ninety-seven may conduct its annual election
 and budget vote at such time in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-eight.  If  a
 district  possesses  more  than one schoolhouse, it shall be held in the
 one usually employed for that purpose, unless the trustees or  board  of
 education  designate  another,  provided  that if the school district is
 divided into election districts such annual meeting and  election  shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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