A00996 Summary:
| BILL NO | A00996 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Ramos |
| COSPNSR | Cook |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §2104, Ed L | |
| 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. | |
A00996 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 996 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, COOK -- 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: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2104 2 to read as follows: 3 § 2104. Voting by trustees and members of board of education. No trus- 4 tee or member of a board of education shall vote on any matter before 5 the board when such vote shall affect a person who is related to the 6 trustee or member and such person is employed by the board of education 7 or school district or would be financially impacted by such vote. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00374-01-5