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                                   3876
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to providing that a
   school bond resolution vote shall take place in conjunction  with  the
   school budget vote
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The section heading and subdivision 1 of section  2022  of
 the  education  law,  as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 97 of
 the laws of 2011, are amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read
 as follows:
   Vote on school district  budgets,  ON  BOND  RESOLUTIONS  and  on  the
 election  of school district trustees and board of education members. 1.
 Notwithstanding any  law,  rule  or  regulation  to  the  contrary,  the
 election  of  trustees  or  members of the board of education, [and] the
 vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated
 expenditures, AND THE VOTE UPON A  BOND  RESOLUTION,  EXCEPT  WHERE  THE
 BOARD  SHALL  BY UNANIMOUS VOTE DECLARE THAT AN EMERGENCY EXISTS AND THE
 COMMISSIONER DETERMINES THAT THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE DISTRICT  REQUIRE
 THAT THE VOTE ON THE BOND RESOLUTION BE HELD ON A DIFFERENT DATE, in any
 common  school  district,  union  free  school  district, central school
 district or central high school district shall be  held  at  the  annual
 meeting  and  election  on  the third Tuesday in May, provided, however,
 that such 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 religious obser-
 vances. The sole trustee, board of trustees or  board  of  education  of
 every  common,  union  free, central or central high school district and
 every city school district to which this article applies  shall  hold  a
 budget  hearing not less than seven nor more than fourteen days prior to
 the annual meeting and election or special district meeting at  which  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03803-01-3
              

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 school  budget  vote  will  occur,  and shall prepare and present to the
 voters at such budget hearing a proposed school district budget for  the
 ensuing school year.
   1-A.  ANY  BOND  RESOLUTION  VOTED UPON PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF
 THIS SECTION MAY ONLY  BE  RESUBMITTED  TO  THE  VOTERS  OF  THE  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT ONE TIME SUBSEQUENT TO SUCH VOTE.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.