Bill Text: NY A09436 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits borough presidents to remove persons they appointed to a community district education council for criminal wrongdoing or misconduct.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-14 - referred to education [A09436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09436-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9436

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 14, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  permitting  borough
          presidents  to  remove  persons they appointed to a community district
          education council for criminal wrongdoing or misconduct

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 6 of section 2590-c of the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 364 of the laws of 2022, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) In addition to the conditions enumerated in  the  public  officers
     5  law creating a vacancy[,]:
     6    (1)  a member of a community district education council who refuses or
     7  neglects to attend three meetings of such council of which he or she  is
     8  duly  notified,  without  rendering  in  writing a good and valid excuse
     9  therefore vacates his or her office by refusal to  serve.  Each  absence
    10  and  any  written  excuse rendered shall be included within the official
    11  written minutes of such meeting. After the third unexcused  absence  the
    12  community council shall declare a vacancy to the chancellor.
    13    (2)  a member of a community district education council appointed by a
    14  borough president who engages in criminal wrongdoing or  misconduct,  as
    15  such  term  is  defined  by  the  chancellor,  may  be removed from such
    16  appointment by the appointing  borough  president  upon  such  time  the
    17  community council shall declare a vacancy to the chancellor.
    18    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 2590-c of the education
    19  law,  as added by chapter 739 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
    20  follows:
    21    (a) In addition to the conditions enumerated in  the  public  officers
    22  law creating a vacancy[,]:
    23    (1)  a  member  of a community board who refuses or neglects to attend
    24  three meetings of his board  of  which  he  is  duly  notified,  without
    25  rendering in writing a good and valid excuse therefor vacates his office
    26  by  refusal to serve. Each absence and any written excuse rendered shall
    27  be included within the official written minutes of such  meeting.  After

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the third unexcused absence the board shall declare a vacancy and certi-
     2  fy the existence of the vacancy to the chancellor.
     3    (2)  a member of a community district education council appointed by a
     4  borough president who engages in criminal wrongdoing or  misconduct,  as
     5  such  term  is  defined  by  the  chancellor,  may  be removed from such
     6  appointment by the appointing borough president upon such time the board
     7  shall declare a vacancy and certify the existence of the vacancy to  the
     8  chancellor.
     9    §  3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    10  ments to section 2590-c of the education law made by section one of this
    11  act shall be subject to the expiration and  reversion  of  such  section
    12  when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take
    13  effect.