Bill Text: NY S02301 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Shortens the time frame within which a meeting may be called to vote on consolidation of school districts after qualified voters have not voted in favor of consolidation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02301 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02301-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2301
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to proceedings  at  meet-
          ings to consolidate school districts
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1512  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  461  of  the  laws  of 1996, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Such meeting shall be organized  as  provided  in  section  fifteen
     5  hundred  twenty-three  of this article.  Such meeting may adopt a resol-
     6  ution to consolidate such districts if two-thirds of the qualified elec-
     7  tors of each district having less than  fifteen  of  such  electors  are
     8  present,  or in case of districts having fifteen or more qualified elec-
     9  tors if ten or more are present.  The vote upon such resolution shall be
    10  by ballot or by taking and recording the ayes and noes.    If  the  vote
    11  shall  be  by taking and recording the ayes and noes, the clerk and such
    12  assistants as may be provided for him or her by the meeting shall keep a
    13  poll-list upon which shall be recorded the names of all qualified  elec-
    14  tors  voting  upon  the resolution, the districts in which such electors
    15  reside, and how each elector voted.  If the vote shall be by ballot, one
    16  or more inspectors of election shall be appointed in such manner as  the
    17  meeting  shall  determine, who shall receive the votes cast, canvass the
    18  same and announce the result of the ballot to the chairman.  If the vote
    19  shall be by ballot then voting  machines  may  be  used  in  the  manner
    20  prescribed  by  section  two  thousand  thirty-five  of this chapter and
    21  provision shall be made for absentee ballots as provided in section  two
    22  thousand  eighteen-a  or two thousand eighteen-b of this chapter.  If it
    23  shall appear that a majority  of  the  qualified  electors  present  and
    24  voting  from  each district are in favor of such resolution, it shall be
    25  declared adopted and where at least one of the districts consolidated is
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05639-01-7
        S. 2301                             2
     1  a union free school district it shall be lawful for such meeting  there-
     2  after  to proceed to the election of a board of education as provided in
     3  sections seventeen hundred two and seventeen hundred four of this  chap-
     4  ter.    If  a majority of the qualified electors present and voting from
     5  each  district  are  not  in  favor  of  such  resolution,  all  further
     6  proceedings  at  such meeting, except a motion to reconsider or adjourn,
     7  shall be dispensed with and no such meeting shall be again called within
     8  [one year thereafter] sixty days of such vote.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.