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Assembly Bill A9849

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from voting on matters before the board which affect a family member of the trustee or board member

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2015-A9849 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2104, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A5944
2019-2020: A6691
2021-2022: A3857
2023-2024: A3642
2025-2026: A996

2015-A9849 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from voting on matters before the board which affect a family member of the trustee or board member who is either employed by the board of education or school district or who would be financially impacted by such vote.

2015-A9849 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9849

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 15, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS, ABINANTI, CAHILL, COOK, HOOPER, SEPULVEDA
  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred  to
  the Committee on Education

AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting trustees
  and members of a board of education from voting on matters before  the
  board which affect a family member of the trustee or board member

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  2104
to read as follows:
  S 2104. VOTING BY TRUSTEES AND MEMBERS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION. NO TRUS-
TEE  OR  MEMBER  OF A BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL VOTE ON ANY MATTER BEFORE
THE BOARD WHEN SUCH VOTE SHALL AFFECT A PERSON WHO  IS  RELATED  TO  THE
TRUSTEE  OR MEMBER AND SUCH PERSON IS EMPLOYED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
OR SCHOOL DISTRICT OR WOULD BE FINANCIALLY IMPACTED BY SUCH VOTE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14437-01-6

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