STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6734 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 providing that elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will be conducted at the annual meeting after the number of seats was increased The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1703 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 797 of the laws of 1957, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. The additional members first elected shall be elected at [a special 5 meeting which shall be called by the board and be held not less than 6 thirty nor more than sixty days] the annual meeting next following the 7 annual meeting at which the number was increased, and pending the first 8 election of such additional members no vacancy shall be deemed to exist 9 in the offices thereof except for the purpose of filling the same by 10 election, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any law. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05812-01-5