Provides that elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will be conducted at the first annual meeting after the meeting during which number of seats was increased.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6734
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- 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 providing that
elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will
be conducted at the annual meeting after the number of seats was
increased
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1703 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 797 of the laws of 1957, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. The additional members first elected shall be elected at [a special
5 meeting which shall be called by the board and be held not less than
6 thirty nor more than sixty days] the annual meeting next following the
7 annual meeting at which the number was increased, and pending the first
8 election of such additional members no vacancy shall be deemed to exist
9 in the offices thereof except for the purpose of filling the same by
10 election, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any law.
11 § 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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