Provides that where practicable, school districts in which schools are utilized as polling places shall schedule conference or professional development days on primary or election days when the polls are open to voters, and if students are present during hours when polls are open, school districts shall take measures to ensure that the general public shall not access other areas of the school outside of the polling place.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8440
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 29, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to utilizing schools as
polling places
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 414 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 257 of the laws of 1976, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (e) For polling places for holding primaries and elections and for the
5 registration of voters and for holding political meetings. But no meet-
6 ings sponsored by political organizations shall be permitted unless
7 authorized by a vote of a district meeting, held as provided by law, or,
8 in cities by the board of education thereof. Except in cities, it shall
9 be the duty of the trustees or board of education to call a special
10 meeting for such purpose upon the petition of at least ten per centum of
11 the qualified electors of the district. Authority so granted shall
12 continue until revoked in like manner and by the same body as granted.
13 Where practicable, school districts in which schools are utilized as
14 polling places shall schedule conference or professional development
15 days pursuant to subdivision eight of section thirty-six hundred four of
16 this chapter on primary or election days when the polls are open to
17 voters. If students are present during hours when polls are open,
18 school districts shall take measures to ensure that the general public
19 shall not access other areas of the school outside of the polling place.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
21 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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