New York S 6737: Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; and repeals certain provisions of the education law relating thereto

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 - This bill is not active in this session.

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S06737 Summary:

BILL NOS06737 

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS A04683

&nbsp

SPONSORFAHY

&nbsp

COSPNSRJACKSON

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §§1707, 2504 & 2502, rpld §1707 sub 2, §1904, Ed L

&nbsp

Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; allows boards of education to meet on any date on or before the Monday after July 20th for their annual organizational meeting.

Go to top S06737 Actions:

BILL NOS06737 

&nbsp

03/21/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

05/20/20251ST REPORT CAL.1161

05/21/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/22/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A4683

&nbspA04683 AMEND= Paulin

&nbsp02/04/2025referred to education

&nbsp04/29/2025reported 

&nbsp05/01/2025advanced to third reading cal.113

&nbsp05/05/2025passed assembly

&nbsp05/05/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp05/05/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

&nbsp06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S6737

&nbsp06/11/20253RD READING CAL.1161

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp11/17/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp11/21/2025signed chap.515

Go to topS06737 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS06737 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topS06737 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6737

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- 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 date of school
 district annual organizational meetings; and to repeal certain
 provisions of such law relating thereto

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1707 of the education law, as
 2 amended by section 6 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 [1.] The annual organizational meeting of the board of education of
 5 every union free school district shall be held [on the first Tuesday] in
 6 July on or before the Monday after the twentieth day in July of each
 7 year[, unless said day shall be a legal holiday, in which event it shall
 8 fall on the first Wednesday in July].
 9 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1707 of the education law is REPEALED.
 10 § 3. Section 1904 of the education law is REPEALED.
 11 § 4. Section 2504 of the education law, as added by chapter 762 of the
 12 laws of 1950, and subdivision 2 as added and subdivision 3 as renumbered
 13 by chapter 526 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 14 § 2504. Meetings of board of education. 1. The annual meeting of the
 15 board of education shall be held [during the first week] in July on or
 16 before the Monday after the twentieth day in July, at four o'clock in
 17 the afternoon or such other hour as the board may determine, at which
 18 meeting the board shall select a president for the ensuing year. At such
 19 meeting the board may also select a vice-president who shall be author-
 20 ized to act for the president in case of the president's absence or
 21 inability to act during such year.
 22 2. [The board of education may, however, by resolution, determine that
 23 the annual meeting be held at any time during the first fifteen days in
 24 the month of July, at a time to be decided by the board.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05796-01-5

 S. 6737 2

 1 3.] Such board shall also fix the day and hour for holding regular
 2 board meetings which shall be at least as often as once each month and
 3 shall also prescribe a method for calling special meetings of such
 4 board.
 5 § 5. Paragraph o of subdivision 9-a of section 2502 of the education
 6 law, as amended by chapter 526 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read
 7 as follows:
 8 o. The members so elected to the board of education shall convene on
 9 the [first business day in July of each year, unless another] date [is]
 10 chosen pursuant to section twenty-five hundred four of this [chapter]
 11 article, at the time of the commencement of their term of office and
 12 select from their members a preside