Bill Text: NY A08003 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits individuals serving on a school or library board of trustees from resigning from their current term in order to run for a vacant trustee position.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-01 - enacting clause stricken [A08003 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08003-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8003

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MIKULIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  prohibiting  individ-
          uals  serving  on a school or library board of trustees from resigning
          from their current term in order to run for a vacant trustee position

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  2105 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
     3    15. Notwithstanding any other law  to  the  contrary,  any  individual
     4  currently  serving  as  a  trustee  of a common school district, central
     5  school district or union-free school district shall be  prohibited  from
     6  resigning  his  or her current position as trustee in order to run for a
     7  vacant trustee position and shall only be eligible to run for  a  vacant
     8  trustee  position  once  his or her current term has expired. Any vacant
     9  trustee position shall be filled in accordance with section two thousand
    10  one hundred thirteen of this part.
    11    § 2. Section 260 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    12  subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
    13    7-a.  Any  individual  serving  on  the  board of trustees of a public
    14  library shall be prohibited from resigning his or her  current  position
    15  as  trustee in order to run for a vacant trustee position and shall only
    16  be eligible to run for a vacant trustee position once his or her current
    17  term has expired.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11231-01-1