Bill Text: NY S05943 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the Suffern central school district to move the date of their annual meeting and election for the 2021 year so that it does not conflict with religious observances; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-04-06 - SIGNED CHAP.100 [S05943 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05943-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5943

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT in relation to permitting the Suffern central school district  to
          move  the  date of their annual meeting and election for the 2021 year
          so that it does not conflict with religious observances; 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 other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  for  the 2021 year, the Suffern central school district shall be permit-
     3  ted to move their annual meeting and election from the third Tuesday  of
     4  May  as  required  by sections 2002 and 2022 of the education law to the
     5  second Tuesday of May so that it does not conflict with religious obser-
     6  vances. Such meeting shall otherwise be held  in  the  same  manner  and
     7  location pursuant to sections 2002 and 2022 of the education law.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     9  deemed repealed July 1, 2021.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10597-01-1