Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; and repeals certain provisions of the education law relating thereto, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   4683
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1707  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  section  6 of part A of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   [1.] The annual organizational meeting of the board  of  education  of
 every union free school district shall be held [on the first Tuesday] in
 July  ON  OR  BEFORE  THE MONDAY AFTER THE TWENTIETH DAY IN JULY of each
 year[, unless said day shall be a legal holiday, in which event it shall
 fall on the first Wednesday in July].
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1707 of the education law is REPEALED.
   § 3. Section 1904 of the education law is REPEALED.
   § 4. Section 2504 of the education law, as added by chapter 762 of the
 laws of 1950, and subdivision 2 as added and subdivision 3 as renumbered
 by chapter 526 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2504. Meetings of board of education. 1. The annual meeting  of  the
 board  of education shall be held [during the first week] in  JULY ON OR
 BEFORE THE MONDAY AFTER THE TWENTIETH DAY IN July, at  four  o'clock  in
 the  afternoon  or  such other hour as the board may determine, at which
 meeting the board shall select a president for the ensuing year. At such
 meeting the board may also select a vice-president who shall be  author-
 ized  to  act  for  the  president in case of the president's absence or
 inability to act during such year.
   2. [The board of education may, however, by resolution, determine that
 the annual meeting be held at any time during the first fifteen days  in
 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.
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   3.]  Such  board  shall  also fix the day and hour for holding regular
 board meetings which shall be at least as often as once each  month  and
 shall  also  prescribe  a  method  for  calling special meetings of such
 board.
   §  5.  Paragraph o of subdivision 9-a of section 2502 of the education
 law, as amended by chapter 526 of the laws of 2019, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   o.  The  members so elected to the board of education shall convene on
 the [first business day in July of each year, unless another] date  [is]
 chosen  pursuant  to  section twenty-five hundred four of this [chapter]
 ARTICLE, at the time of the commencement of their  term  of  office  and
 select  from their members a president who shall serve for a term of one
 year.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.