Bill Text: NY S01658 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that school districts may hold elections in any building owned or leased by the district, in addition to any district schoolhouse.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01658 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01658-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1658--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the location of the annual school district elections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2002 of the education law, as amended by chapter 2 801 of the laws of 1953, subdivision 1 as amended by section 5 of part C 3 of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: 4 § 2002. Time and place of annual meeting. 1. The annual meeting and 5 election of each school district shall be held on the third Tuesday of 6 May in each year, provided, however that such annual meeting and 7 election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the commissioner 8 at the request of a local school board certifies no later than March 9 first that such election would conflict with religious observances. 10 Unless the hour and place thereof shall have been fixed by a vote of a 11 previous district meeting, the same shall be held in the schoolhouse, or 12 any building owned or leased by the district, at seven-thirty [o'clock13in the evening] p.m. in the case of a school district that is not 14 divided into election districts and conducts its election or vote by 15 recording the ayes or noes of the qualified voters attending, or, in the 16 case of all other districts, during at least six consecutive hours after 17 six a.m., two of which hours shall be after six p.m. as determined by 18 resolution of the trustees or board of education, provided, however, 19 that the trustees or board of education of any school district that 20 conducted its annual meeting at seven-thirty p.m. in nineteen hundred 21 ninety-seven may conduct its annual election and budget vote at such 22 time in nineteen hundred ninety-eight. If a district possesses more than 23 one schoolhouse or building, or leases more than one building, it shall EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04316-05-9S. 1658--A 2 1 be held in the one usually employed for that purpose, unless the trus- 2 tees or board of education designate another, provided that if the 3 school district is divided into election districts such annual meeting 4 and election shall be held at such place in each election district as 5 the board of education may designate. If the district possesses no 6 schoolhouse or building, or does not lease a building, or if the school- 7 house or building shall not be accessible or adequate, then the annual 8 meeting and election shall be held at such place as the trustees or 9 board of education, or the clerk, shall designate in the notice. 10 2. The use of any building owned or leased by a school district, as 11 described in subdivision one of this section, shall comply with the 12 accessibility provisions set out in subdivisions one-a and one-b of 13 section 4-104 of the election law. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law.
