STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7127 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DARLING -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting individ- uals convicted of stealing public funds from being elected or appointed as a member of a school board of education 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 1501-d 2 to read as follows: 3 § 1501-d. Boards of education; persons convicted of stealing public 4 funds. No person shall be eligible to be elected or appointed as a 5 member of the board of education of any school district if he or she has 6 been convicted of stealing public funds under any crime set forth in 7 article one hundred fifty-five of the penal law. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11029-01-3