Bill Text: NY A04732 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for defense and indemnification of a duly elected officer of a parents' association in New York City community school districts in suits by community board members or superintendents or school principals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A04732 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04732-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4732
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PERRY --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the defense and indem-
          nification of certain persons serving in  the  New  York  city  school
          district
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2560  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  273  of  the  laws  of 1986, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special
     5  or local, or the limitation contained in  the  provisions  of  any  city
     6  charter,  any  duly appointed member of the board of education in a city
     7  having a population of one million or more, the members of each communi-
     8  ty school board in such city, the teaching or supervising  staff,  offi-
     9  cer,  or employee of such board and of each such community school board,
    10  member of a committee on special education or subcommittee thereof [or],
    11  authorized participant in the school volunteer program in such city,  or
    12  duly appointed or elected officer of a parents' association in such city
    13  shall  be  entitled to legal representation and indemnification pursuant
    14  to the provisions of, and subject  to  the  conditions,  procedures  and
    15  limitations  contained  in section fifty-k of the general municipal law,
    16  except that any judgment or settlement pursuant to this section shall be
    17  payable from the monies of the board of education.
    18    § 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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