Bill Text: NY S08529 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8529 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-08 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08529 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08529-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8529

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        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. 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.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    13  deemed repealed September 30, 2020.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16659-02-0