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S04434 Summary:

BILL NOS04434 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05048

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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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 in Orange County.

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BILL NOS04434 

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02/04/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

02/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.312

02/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/24/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/17/2025PASSED SENATE

03/17/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/17/2025referred to education

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/28/20261ST REPORT CAL.173

01/29/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/03/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/09/2026PASSED SENATE

02/09/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/09/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4434

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 the establishment of
 school election wards in union free school districts and central
 school districts contained entirely or partially within Orange county

 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 contained entirely or
 5 partially within Orange county may, by resolution and subject to a
 6 mandatory referendum, establish school election wards for purposes of
 7 electing individual trustees. There shall be at least three, but no more
 8 than nine, school election wards within a school district. One trustee
 9 shall be chosen from each ward by the qualified voters therein. Within
 10 such resolution, a board of education may require that a trustee elected
 11 to represent a ward shall be a resident of such ward. Such resolution
 12 shall also provide for the signature requirements for nominating
 13 petitions consistent with the applicable provisions of this chapter.
 14 b. (i) A resolution by the board of education, which shall be passed
 15 no less than one hundred eighty days prior to a related referendum being
 16 placed before the qualified voters of the school district during the
 17 annual meeting and election, shall include an assessment and finding,
 18 which shall take into account any historic disenfranchisement or
 19 discrimination against any group of individuals within the school
 20 district based upon race, gender, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic
 21 status, or sexual orientation, including that no disenfranchisement or
 22 discrimination would result from the adoption of the proposed resol-
 23 ution. The board of education shall conduct no fewer than three public
 24 hearings on such resolution.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01696-01-5

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 1 (ii) Such public hearings shall be conducted not less than thirty nor
 2 more than ninety days prior to a vote on the resolution by a majority of
 3 the qualified voters of the district. The district clerk shall give
 4 notice of the public hearing by publishing a notice five times within
 5 fifteen days preceding the hearing, on the district's website and in two
 6 newspapers if there shall be two, or in one newspaper if there shall be
 7 but one, having general circulation within such district. But if no
 8 newspaper shall then have general circulation therein, said notice shall
 9 be posted in at least twenty of the most public places in said district
 10 fifteen days before the time of the first hearing.
 11 (iii) Following such public hearings, a proposition for approval of
 12 such resolution and the boundaries of proposed school election wards