Bill Text: NY A05944 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A05944 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05944-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5944 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 17, 2017 ___________ 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. LBD08848-01-7
