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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5944
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 17, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, ABINANTI, 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:
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.
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