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A00881 Summary:
BILL NO | A00881A |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S06599 |
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SPONSOR | Gunther |
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COSPNSR | Jaffee, Skoufis, Zebrowski |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §§1702 & 1804, Ed L | |
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Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections. |
A00881 Actions:
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01/09/2017 | referred to education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/02/2017 | amend and recommit to education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/02/2017 | print number 881a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/06/2017 | reported referred to ways and means | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/14/2017 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/15/2017 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/15/2017 | rules report cal.364 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/15/2017 | ordered to third reading rules cal.364 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/19/2017 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/19/2017 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/15/2017 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2017 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S6599 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2017 | 3RD READING CAL.2078 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2017 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2017 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12/06/2017 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12/18/2017 | vetoed memo.248 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12/18/2017 | tabled |
A00881 Committee Votes:
Nolan | Aye | Lopez | Aye | ||||||
Hooper | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Englebright | Aye | McDonough | Aye | ||||||
Arroyo | Aye | Graf | Aye | ||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | McLaughlin | Aye | ||||||
Paulin | Aye | Murray | Aye | ||||||
Ramos | Aye | Lawrence | Aye | ||||||
Benedetto | Aye | Walsh | Aye | ||||||
O'Donnell | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Titone | Aye | ||||||||
Titus | Aye | ||||||||
Miller | Aye | ||||||||
Mayer | Aye | ||||||||
Lifton | Aye | ||||||||
Kim | Aye | ||||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | ||||||||
Ryan | Aye | ||||||||
Mosley | Aye | ||||||||
Brindisi | Aye | ||||||||
Otis | Aye | ||||||||
Seawright | Aye | ||||||||
Jaffee | Aye | ||||||||
Farrell | Aye | Oaks | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Schimminger | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Excused | Fitzpatrick | Nay | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Malliotakis | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Excused | Walter | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Perry | Aye | Curran | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Excused | ||||||||
Cahill | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Hooper | Excused | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Cusick | Aye | ||||||||
Ortiz | Excused | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Moya | Aye | ||||||||
Weprin | Aye | ||||||||
Rodriguez | Excused | ||||||||
Ramos | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
McDonald | Aye | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Aye | Kolb | Aye | ||||||
Gottfried | Aye | Oaks | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Butler | Aye | ||||||
Farrell | Aye | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Aye | Finch | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Raia | Aye | ||||||
Hooper | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Ortiz | Aye | ||||||||
Pretlow | Aye | ||||||||
Cook | Excused | ||||||||
Glick | Aye | ||||||||
Morelle | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Englebright | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Colton | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Perry | Aye | ||||||||
Galef | Aye | ||||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Titus | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
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A00881 Floor Votes:
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Lifton
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Sepulveda
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Curran
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
Lopez
ER
Ortiz
ER
Simanowitz
Yes
Arroyo
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Graf
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simon
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Gunther
Yes
Lupinacci
Yes
Palmesano
ER
Simotas
Yes
Barclay
ER
Davila
Yes
Harris
Yes
Magee
Yes
Palumbo
Yes
Skartados
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Skoufis
Yes
Barrett
Yes
DenDekker
ER
Hevesi
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pellegrino
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barron
ER
Dickens
Yes
Hikind
Yes
Mayer
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Stec
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hooper
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Perry
Yes
Steck
Yes
Bichotte
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Blake
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
McKevitt
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
McLaughlin
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Titone
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Quart
Yes
Titus
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Errigo
Yes
Jenne
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Ra
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Brindisi
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Johns
Yes
Miller ML
Yes
Raia
Yes
Walker
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Farrell
Yes
Jones
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Finch
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Morelle
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Butler
No
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kavanagh
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Walter
Yes
Byrne
No
Friend
Yes
Kearns
Yes
Mosley
ER
Rodriguez
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Galef
Yes
Kim
Yes
Moya
Yes
Rosenthal
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Gantt
Yes
Kolb
Yes
Murray
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Williams
Yes
Castorina
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Niou
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Colton
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Wright
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gjonaj
Yes
Lawrence
Yes
Norris
Yes
Schimminger
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Crespo
Yes
Glick
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Oaks
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A00881 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 881--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the establishment of school election wards in union free school districts and central school districts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1702 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a 4 board of education of a union free school district may, by resolution 5 and subject to a mandatory referendum, establish school election wards 6 for purposes of electing individual trustees. There shall be at least 7 three, but no more than nine, school election wards within a school 8 district. One trustee shall be chosen from each ward by the qualified 9 voters therein. 10 b. (i) Upon a resolution by the board of education, which shall be 11 passed no less than one hundred eighty days prior to a related referen- 12 dum being placed before the qualified voters of the school district 13 during the annual meeting and election, the board of education shall 14 conduct a public hearing. 15 (ii) Such public hearing shall be conducted not less than thirty nor 16 more than ninety days prior to a vote on the resolution by a majority of 17 the qualified voters of the district. The district clerk shall give 18 notice of the public hearing by publishing a notice five times within 19 fourteen days preceding the hearing, on the district's website and in 20 two newspapers if there shall be two, or in one newspaper if there shall 21 be but one, having general circulation within such district. But if no 22 newspaper shall then have general circulation therein, said notice shall EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03770-03-7A. 881--A 2 1 be posted in at least twenty of the most public places in said district 2 fourteen days before the time of such hearing. 3 (iii) Following such public hearing, a proposition for approval of 4 such resolution by a majority of the qualified voters of such district 5 shall be submitted at the next succeeding annual meeting and election. 6 The district clerk shall give notice of such proposition by publishing 7 notice prior to the election, in the same manner and publication as the 8 public hearing, set forth in this section, specifying the time when and 9 place or places where such election will be held, the hours during which 10 the polls will remain open for the purpose of receiving ballots, and 11 setting forth in full the language of the proposition to be approved at 12 such election. 13 (iv) If such proposition is approved, within five months of such 14 approval, the board of education shall define and publish, by resol- 15 ution, boundaries of each of the school election wards. Such wards shall 16 be contiguous and each ward shall contain as nearly as possible the same 17 number of inhabitants. A map of each ward and the boundaries thereof 18 shall be created with the original filed with the district clerk within 19 ten days of the resolution and copies thereof filed in the board of 20 elections of the county. The boundaries of the school election wards may 21 thereafter be redefined by the board of education by resolution, after a 22 public hearing thereon, upon each issuance of a federal decennial 23 census. Such resolution shall be established at least six months prior 24 to the next election of a school board trustee or trustees. 25 (v) After a school election ward system shall have been established, 26 the term of every existing trustee shall terminate on the thirtieth day 27 of June next succeeding the first annual meeting and election following 28 voter approval of the referendum and on the third Tuesday in May every 29 three years thereafter. 30 c. The term of office of each trustee from a school election ward 31 shall be three years. In each school election ward, the candidate 32 receiving a plurality of votes in each school election ward shall be 33 declared elected to that position. 34 d. Whenever a vacancy shall occur or exist in the office of a ward 35 trustee of a board of education, except by reason of expiration of term 36 or increase in the number of members of such board, such vacancy shall 37 be filled within ninety days either by (i) a majority vote of the 38 remaining trustees of the board of education or (ii) a special election 39 ordered by the commissioner. When a special election is ordered, the 40 vacancy shall not be filled otherwise. No person shall be appointed to 41 fill a vacancy of a ward trustee of a board of education unless he or 42 she fulfills all of the qualifications in section twenty-one hundred two 43 of this title to enable him or her to be a candidate for the office of a 44 trustee of the board of education from the ward involved. The person 45 appointed or elected to fill such vacancy shall take office immediately 46 upon filing of his or her official oath of office with the district 47 clerk and shall hold his or her office for the remainder of the unex- 48 pired term. 49 e. Except as provided herein, all provisions of this article, article 50 forty-one, and article forty-three of this chapter or of any other 51 general law relating to or affecting the election of trustees in a union 52 free school district shall apply to school election wards organized as 53 herein. 54 § 2. Section 1804 of the education law is amended by adding a new 55 subdivision 13 to read as follows:A. 881--A 3 1 13. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a 2 board of education of a central school district may, by resolution and 3 subject to a mandatory referendum, establish school election wards for 4 purposes of electing individual school board members. There shall be 5 five, seven or nine school election wards within a school district. One 6 member shall be chosen from each ward by the qualified voters therein. 7 b. (i) Upon a resolution by the board of education, which shall be 8 passed no less than one hundred eighty days prior to a related referen- 9 dum being placed before the qualified voters of the school district 10 during the annual meeting and election, the board of education shall 11 conduct a public hearing. 12 (ii) Such public hearing shall be conducted not less than thirty nor 13 more than ninety days prior to a vote on the resolution by a majority of 14 the qualified voters of the district. The district clerk shall give 15 notice of the public hearing by publishing a notice five times within 16 fourteen days preceding the hearing, on the district's website and in 17 two newspapers if there shall be two, or in one newspaper if there shall 18 be but one, having general circulation within such district. But if no 19 newspaper shall then have general circulation therein, said notice shall 20 be posted in at least twenty of the most public places in said district 21 fourteen days before the time of such hearing. 22 (iii) Following such public hearing, a proposition for approval of 23 such resolution by a majority of the qualified voters of such district 24 shall be submitted at the next succeeding annual meeting and election. 25 The district clerk shall give notice of such proposition by publishing 26 notice prior to the election, in the same manner and publication as the 27 public hearing, set forth in this section, specifying the time when and 28 place or places where such election will be held, the hours during which 29 the polls will remain open for the purpose of receiving ballots, and 30 setting forth in full the language of the proposition to be approved at 31 such election. 32 (iv) If such proposition is approved, within five months of such 33 approval, the board of education shall define and publish, by resol- 34 ution, boundaries of each of the school election wards. Such wards shall 35 be contiguous and each ward shall contain as nearly as possible the same 36 number of inhabitants. A map of each ward and the boundaries thereof 37 shall be created with the original filed with the district clerk within 38 ten days of the resolution and copies thereof filed in the board of 39 elections of the county. The boundaries of the school election wards may 40 thereafter be redefined by the board of education by resolution, after a 41 public hearing thereon, upon each issuance of a federal decennial 42 census. Such resolution shall be established at least six months prior 43 to the next election of a school board member or members. 44 (v) After a school election ward system shall have been established, 45 the term of every existing member shall terminate on the thirtieth day 46 of June next succeeding the first annual meeting and election following 47 voter approval of the referendum and on the third Tuesday in May every 48 three years thereafter. 49 c. The term of office of each school board member from a school 50 election ward shall be three years. In each election ward, the candidate 51 receiving a plurality of votes in each election ward shall be declared 52 elected to that position. 53 d. Whenever a vacancy shall occur or exist in the office of a member 54 of a board of education, except by reason of expiration of term or 55 increase in the number of members of such board, such vacancy shall be 56 filled within ninety days by a majority vote of the remaining trusteesA. 881--A 4 1 of the board of education. No person shall be appointed to fill a vacan- 2 cy of a member of a board of education unless he or she fulfills all of 3 the qualifications in section twenty-one hundred two of this title to 4 enable him or her to be a candidate for the office of a member of the 5 board of education from the ward involved. The person appointed or 6 elected to fill such vacancy shall take office immediately upon filing 7 of his or her official oath of office with the district clerk and shall 8 hold his or her office for the remainder of the unexpired term. 9 e. Except as provided herein, all provisions of this article, article 10 forty-one, and article forty-three of this chapter or of any other 11 general law relating to or affecting the election of school board 12 members in a central school district shall apply to school election 13 wards organized as herein. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.