Provides for a special district meeting for a school budget revote after the voters have defeated a budget at an annual meeting and election held June 9, 2020 pursuant to executive order number 202.26 of two thousand twenty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8528
IN SENATE
June 8, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to provide for a special district meeting for a school budget
revote; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expi-
ration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the
2 voters have defeated a budget at an annual meeting and election held
3 June 9, 2020 pursuant to executive order number 202.26 of two thousand
4 twenty, the board of education or trustees of a school district may call
5 a special district meeting for a school budget revote to be held on the
6 fourth Tuesday in July. Such board of education or trustees shall
7 provide notice of such special district meeting to the qualified voters
8 in the same manner prescribed for notice of a special meeting pursuant
9 to the education law except that such notice shall provide for a budget
10 hearing not less than seven nor more than twenty-one days prior to the
11 special district meeting at which a school budget vote will occur.
12 2. Such special meeting shall take place remotely, and qualified
13 voters shall vote in such election only by absentee ballot, including
14 postage, to be provided to all qualified voters by each school district.
15 Each school district shall send out a postcard notice which details the
16 date of the election, date of the budget hearing, definition of quali-
17 fied voter, and an absentee ballot.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
19 deemed repealed September 30, 2020.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16659-01-0
