Bill Text: NY S08528 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for a special district meeting for a school budget revote after the voters have defeated a budget at an annual meeting and election held June 9, 2020 pursuant to executive order number 202.26 of two thousand twenty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-08 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08528 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08528-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8528

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 8, 2020
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to provide for a special district meeting  for  a  school  budget
          revote; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expi-
          ration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the
     2  voters have defeated a budget at an annual  meeting  and  election  held
     3  June  9,  2020 pursuant to executive order number 202.26 of two thousand
     4  twenty, the board of education or trustees of a school district may call
     5  a special district meeting for a school budget revote to be held on  the
     6  fourth  Tuesday  in  July.  Such  board  of  education or trustees shall
     7  provide notice of such special district meeting to the qualified  voters
     8  in  the  same manner prescribed for notice of a special meeting pursuant
     9  to the education law except that such notice shall provide for a  budget
    10  hearing  not  less than seven nor more than twenty-one days prior to the
    11  special district meeting at which a school budget vote will occur.
    12    2. Such special meeting  shall  take  place  remotely,  and  qualified
    13  voters  shall  vote  in such election only by absentee ballot, including
    14  postage, to be provided to all qualified voters by each school district.
    15  Each school district shall send out a postcard notice which details  the
    16  date  of  the election, date of the budget hearing, definition of quali-
    17  fied voter, and an absentee ballot.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    19  deemed repealed September 30, 2020.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16659-01-0