New York S 7150: Relates to deadlines for filing nominating petitions for small city school board elections

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S07150 Summary:

BILL NOS07150B

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SAME ASSAME AS A04384-B

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SPONSORHINCHEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2608 & 2032, Ed L

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Requires that nominating petitions for small city school district elections be submitted no later than thirty days prior to the election; makes technical corrections relating to such small city school board elections.

Go to top S07150 Actions:

BILL NOS07150B

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04/02/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/21/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION

01/21/2026PRINT NUMBER 7150A

03/25/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION

03/25/2026PRINT NUMBER 7150B

04/21/20261ST REPORT CAL.743

04/22/20262ND REPORT CAL.

04/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/02/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A4384B

&nbspA04384 AMEND=B Paulin

&nbsp02/04/2025referred to education

&nbsp01/07/2026referred to education

&nbsp01/22/2026amend and recommit to education

&nbsp01/22/2026print number 4384a

&nbsp03/18/2026amend (t) and recommit to education

&nbsp03/18/2026print number 4384b

&nbsp03/25/2026reported 

&nbsp03/26/2026advanced to third reading cal.331

&nbsp03/30/2026passed assembly

&nbsp03/30/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp03/30/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

&nbsp06/02/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S7150B

&nbsp06/02/20263RD READING CAL.743

&nbsp06/02/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/02/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7150--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 2, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
 to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
 and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to deadlines for filing
 nominating petitions for small city school board elections

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 2608 of the education law,
 2 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 273 of the laws of 1987 and subdivi-
 3 sion 2 as amended by chapter 502 of the laws of 1974, are amended to
 4 read as follows:
 5 1. Candidates for members of the board of education in a city school
 6 district shall be nominated by petition directed to the board of educa-
 7 tion and signed by at least one hundred persons qualified to vote at
 8 school elections in such district. Such petition shall contain the names
 9 and residences of the candidates for the vacancies in the board of
 10 education to be filled at the annual election. Where a proposition has
 11 been adopted by the voters of such district to require that each vacancy
 12 on the board of education to be filled shall be considered a separate
 13 specific office, a separate petition shall be required to nominate a
 14 candidate to each separate office and such petition shall describe the
 15 specific vacancy on the board of education for which the candidate is
 16 nominated, which description shall include at least the length of the
 17 term of office and the name of the last incumbent, if any. Such
 18 petitions shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the board of
 19 education between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m., on or before the
 20 [twentieth] thirtieth day preceding the day of the annual election. The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05798-05-6

 S. 7150--B 2

 1 clerk shall refuse to accept petitions signed by an insufficient number
 2 of qualified voters, or petitions which are not timely. If a candidate
 3 for whom a nominating petition for the office of member of a board of
 4 education has been duly filed withdraws such petition, dies or becomes
 5 otherwise ineligible to hold such office at a time which is later than
 6 fifteen days before the last day for the