Bill Text: NY A00273 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that school district officers have a high school diploma or GED certificate and that any candidate for school district officer or board of education member shall make available to voters an explanation of qualifications.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-26 - held for consideration in education [A00273 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00273-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          273
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. MONTESANO, BURLING, RABBITT, FINCH, SALADINO --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CASTRO, CONTE -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  qualifications  of
         school district officers
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 2102 of the education law, as  amended  by  chapter
    2  737 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 2102. Qualifications  of  officers.    Every school district officer
    4  must be able to read and write, MUST HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA  OR  GED
    5  CERTIFICATE,  and  must  be  a qualified voter of the district; and each
    6  member of a board of education of a union free school  district,  common
    7  school  district or a central school district shall have been a resident
    8  of the school district, or in the case of a person qualified by subdivi-
    9  sion three of section twenty hundred twelve of this chapter to vote in a
   10  district election, a resident of the district  or  reservation,  for  at
   11  least  one year prior to the election. Notwithstanding the provisions of
   12  any other general or special law to  the  contrary,  a  school  district
   13  treasurer,  collector  or  clerk  need  not  be a resident of the school
   14  district to hold such office in such district.  ANY CANDIDATE FOR SCHOOL
   15  DISTRICT OFFICER SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE TO VOTERS AN EXPLANATION OF QUALI-
   16  FICATIONS FOR OFFICE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, INFORMATION PERTAIN-
   17  ING TO SUCH CANDIDATE'S EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02283-01-1