STATE OF NEW YORK
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5980
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 15, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and duties
of the boards of education
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1709 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. To alter the existing boundaries of the attendance zones that a
4 student currently attends, the school board shall consider the prospec-
5 tive need for such alterations, the ramifications upon the community,
6 initial costs and savings resulting from such alterations. The school
7 board shall post the alternative boundary lines in a plan and conduct a
8 public hearing. Notice of such hearing shall be published by such board
9 of education in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the
10 community once a week for two weeks, and shall be conspicuously posted
11 in the affected school district. The board of education shall render a
12 decision at a regular or special meeting, the results of which shall be
13 recorded and made available to the public.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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