Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 02, 2011 |
recommit, enacting clause stricken |
Mar 14, 2011 |
referred to education |
Senate Bill S4027
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S4027 (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-S4027 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4027 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law and the town law, in relation to requiring library and fire district budget proposal elections to occur on the same day as the school district budget vote; and to repeal certain provisions of the town law relating thereto PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would require that fire and library budget proposal votes for a municipality be held on the same day as the school budget vote in that municipality. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends section 259 of the education law to state that the budget proposal votes for registered public and free association libraries be held on the same day as the school district budget vote in that municipality. Section 2 amends section 105 of the town law to read that the board of commissioners for each fire district shall submit their fire district budgets on or before the twentieth day in April and that it be presented to the voters on the same day as the school district budget vote in that municipality.
2011-S4027 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4027 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 14, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ZELDIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law and the town law, in relation to requiring library and fire district budget proposal elections to occur on the same day as the school district budget vote; and to repeal certain provisions of the town law relating thereto THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 259 of the education law, as amended by chapter 184 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: (1) Except as provided in subparagraph two of this paragraph, whenever qualified voters of a municipality, in a number equal to at least ten per centum of the total number of votes cast in such municipality for governor at the last gubernatorial election, shall so petition and the library board of trustees shall endorse, the question of establishing or increasing the amount of funding of the annual contribution for the operating budget of a registered public or free association library by such municipality to a sum specified in said petition, shall be voted on [at the next general election of such municipality] THE SAME DAY AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET VOTE IS HELD FOR SUCH MUNICIPALITY, provided that due public notice of the proposed action shall have been given. An increase in library funding provided pursuant to this paragraph shall not apply to a municipal budget adopted prior to the date of such election. S 2. Section 105 of the town law, as amended by chapter 240 of the laws of 2006 and subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 555 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: S 105. Fire district estimates and budget. 1. The board of commission- ers of each fire district shall submit the fire district budget on or before the [seventh] TWENTIETH day of [November] APRIL to the budget EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06987-01-1
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