Bill Text: NY A10042 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the trustees of the Tuckahoe Common School district to submit a proposition to reorganize as the Tuckahoe-Shinnecock Union Free School District.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-17 - print number 10042a [A10042 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10042-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10042--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT in relation to authorizing the trustees of  the  Tuckahoe  Common
          School  District,  county  of  Suffolk, to submit a proposition to the
          qualified voters of such district to reorganize such  school  district
          as  a union free school district; and providing for the repeal of such
          provisions upon expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
     2  board of trustees of the Tuckahoe  Common  School  District,  county  of
     3  Suffolk,  may,  upon its own motion, cause to be submitted at the annual
     4  meeting and election or special meeting,  a  proposition  to  reorganize
     5  such  school district as a union free school district to be known as the
     6  Tuckahoe-Shinnecock Union Free School District.
     7    § 2. No such proposition shall be approved by the board of trustees of
     8  the Tuckahoe  Common  School  District  until  the  board  conducts  and
     9  approves  a  feasibility  study  of the reorganization. Such study shall
    10  include at a minimum: (a) current and projected student enrollments; (b)
    11  current and projected professional staffing plans; (c) a plan for educa-
    12  tional programs and curricula in the proposed district;  (d) a plan  for
    13  transportation in the proposed district; and (e) the fiscal implications
    14  of  the reorganization including changes in state aid, expenditures, and
    15  local tax effort.
    16    § 3. Upon the approval of the proposition by the qualified  voters  of
    17  the Tuckahoe Common School district, the commissioner of education shall
    18  issue  an  order establishing the union free school district. Such order
    19  shall specify the effective date of the order, which shall not be  later
    20  than 60 days after the approval of the proposition.
    21    §  4.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    22  deemed repealed June 30, 2026.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14944-07-4