Bill Text: NY A06598 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a school district vote on a bond resolution shall take place on the third Tuesday in May in conjunction with the school budget vote; provides that such bond resolution vote may only be resubmitted to the voters of the school district one time subsequent to such vote.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to education [A06598 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06598-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6598
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 22, 2011
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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:
    1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of  section  2022  of
    2  the  education law, the section heading as amended by section 23 of part
    3  A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997 and subdivision  1  as  amended  by
    4  section 8 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, are amended and a
    5  new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:
    6    Vote  on  school  district  budgets,  ON  BOND  RESOLUTIONS and on the
    7  election of school district trustees and board of education members.  1.
    8  Notwithstanding any  law,  rule  or  regulation  to  the  contrary,  the
    9  election  of  trustees  or  members of the board of education, [and] the
   10  vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated
   11  expenditures, AND THE VOTE UPON A BOND RESOLUTION, in any common  school
   12  district, union free school district, central school district or central
   13  high school district shall be held at the annual meeting and election on
   14  the third Tuesday in May, provided, however, that such election shall be
   15  held  on the second Tuesday in May if the commissioner at the request of
   16  a local school board certifies no  later  than  March  first  that  such
   17  election  would  conflict with religious observances. When such election
   18  or vote is taken by recording the ayes and noes of the qualified  voters
   19  attending,  a  majority of the qualified voters present and voting, by a
   20  hand or voice vote, may determine to take up the question of voting  the
   21  necessary  funds  to meet the estimated expenditures for a specific item
   22  separately, and the qualified voters present and voting may increase the
   23  amount of any estimated expenditures or  reduce  the  same,  except  for
   24  teachers' salaries, and the ordinary contingent expenses of the schools.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09915-01-1
       A. 6598                             2
    1  The  sole  trustee,  board  of  trustees  or board of education of every
    2  common, union free, central or central high school  district  and  every
    3  city  school  district to which this article applies shall hold a budget
    4  hearing  not  less  than  seven nor more than fourteen days prior to the
    5  annual meeting and election or  special  district  meeting  at  which  a
    6  school  budget  vote  will  occur,  and shall prepare and present to the
    7  voters at such budget hearing a proposed school district budget for  the
    8  ensuing school year.
    9    1-A.  ANY  BOND  RESOLUTION  VOTED UPON PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF
   10  THIS SECTION MAY ONLY  BE  RESUBMITTED  TO  THE  VOTERS  OF  THE  SCHOOL
   11  DISTRICT ONE TIME SUBSEQUENT TO SUCH VOTE.
   12    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.