Senate Bill S2255

                             
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                                   2255
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- 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  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.