Senate Bill S3394

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing school election wards in the Warwick Valley Central School District

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Current Bill Status - Stricken


  • 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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2023-S3394 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1804, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6179
2021-2022: S1672

2023-S3394 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes school election wards in the Warwick Valley Central School District.

2023-S3394 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3394 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3394
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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 Warwick Valley Central School District
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1804 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
   13. A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE
 BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY, BY
 RESOLUTION  AND  SUBJECT  TO  A  MANDATORY  REFERENDUM, ESTABLISH SCHOOL
 ELECTION WARDS FOR PURPOSES OF ELECTING INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.
 THERE SHALL BE FIVE, SEVEN OR NINE  SCHOOL  ELECTION  WARDS  WITHIN  THE
 SCHOOL DISTRICT. ONE MEMBER SHALL BE CHOSEN FROM EACH WARD BY THE QUALI-
 FIED  VOTERS THEREIN. WITHIN SUCH RESOLUTION, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MAY
 REQUIRE THAT A MEMBER ELECTED TO REPRESENT A WARD SHALL BE A RESIDENT OF
 SUCH WARD. SUCH RESOLUTION SHALL ALSO PROVIDE FOR THE SIGNATURE REQUIRE-
 MENTS FOR NOMINATING PETITIONS CONSISTENT WITH THE APPLICABLE 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.
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 S. 3394                             2
              

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