What's happening
This bill allows annual school district elections in New York to be held in any building owned or leased by the district, not just schoolhouses.
Why it matters
Increases flexibility for school districts. by allowing annual elections to be held in any district-owned or leased building, potentially making it easier to find accessible or adequately sized locations for voting.
Addresses accessibility and adequacy concerns. districts are not limited to traditional schoolhouses and can select more suitable venues if school buildings are unavailable or insufficient.
May improve voter participation and convenience. by allowing elections to occur in locations that better serve the community, such as larger, more centrally located, or ADA-compliant buildings.
Empowers local school boards. with greater discretion to choose election venues that best meet safety, logistical, and community needs, especially in districts with multiple properties or unique facility challenges.
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Who cares
School district trustees and boards of education
The bill would expressly allow annual meetings and elections in any district-owned or leased building, rather than only a schoolhouse, when a previous district meeting has not fixed the location.
Qualified school district voters
Their annual meeting and election could be held in a district-owned or leased building other than a schoolhouse.
School district clerks
The bill would extend the notice-based process for designating another location to address district buildings beyond schoolhouses when facilities are unavailable, inaccessible or inadequate.
Headline styles
Expand School Election Locations
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Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
11074
IN ASSEMBLY
June 4, 2018
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Skoufis) -read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the location of the annual school district elections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2002 of the education law, as amended by chapter 801 of the laws of 1953, subdivision 1 as amended by section 5 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
§ 2002. Time and place of annual meeting. [1.] The annual meeting and election of each school district shall be held on the third Tuesday of May in each year, provided, however that such annual meeting and election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the commissioner at the request of a local school board certifies no later than March first that such election would conflict with religious observances. Unless the hour and place thereof shall have been fixed by a vote of a previous district meeting, the same shall be held in the schoolhouse, or any building owned or leased by the district, at seven-thirty [o'clock in the evening] p.m. in the case of a school district that is not divided into election districts and conducts its election or vote by recording the ayes or noes of the qualified voters attending, or, in the case of all other districts, during at least six consecutive hours after six a.m., two of which hours shall be after six p.m. as determined by resolution of the trustees or board of education, provided, however, that the trustees or board of education of any school district that conducted its annual meeting at seven-thirty p.m. in nineteen hundred ninety-seven may conduct its annual election and budget vote at such time in nineteen hundred ninety-eight. If a district possesses more than one schoolhouse or building, or leases more than one building, it shall be held in the one usually employed for that purpose, unless the trustees or board of education designate another, provided that if the school district is divided into election districts such annual meeting and election shall be held at such place in each election district as the board of education may designate. If the district possesses no
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15985-01-8
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schoolhouse or building, or does not lease a building, or if the schoolhouse or building shall not be accessible or adequate, then the annual meeting and election shall be held at such place as the trustees or board of education, or the clerk, shall designate in the notice.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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