Skip to content
A6691Assembly2019-2020 Session

Ban Board Member Family Votes

Official 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”

Sponsor Philip RamosAD-6+2 co-sponsorsAffects Education
Status
In Assembly Committee
Education
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Education

What's happening

This bill prohibits school board members from voting on matters that affect their family members' employment or financial interests.

Why it matters

  1. Aims to prevent conflicts of interest. by ensuring school board members cannot use their position to benefit relatives who are employed by the district or who might gain financially from board decisions.

  2. Could increase public trust in school board decisions. by making it clearer that board actions are made in the community’s interest, not influenced by personal or family gain.

  3. May directly affect local hiring, contract, and funding decisions. where board members have relatives working in the district, potentially changing outcomes in cases where recusal alters the vote count.

  4. Introduces a clear legal standard for recusal. in school board votes, which could prompt boards to develop new procedures for identifying and managing potential family conflicts.

The daily · weekday mornings

Albany, before your first meeting.

Every bill that moved yesterday, summarized in a sentence and ranked by impact. The Albany Scorecard follows on Sundays.

Free. Unsubscribe in one click. Want alerts on specific bills? Create an account.

Who cares

Headline styles

Ban Board Member Family Votes

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Philip Ramos

Assembly Member · Assembly District 6

1 Multi-sponsor

History

  1. Referred to education
  2. Referred to education

Full text

1 pageUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗

STATE OF NEW YORK

6691

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

March 15, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, ABINANTI, COOK -- 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2104 to read as follows:

§ 2104. Voting by trustees and members of board of education. No trustee or member of a board of education shall vote on any matter before the board when such vote shall affect a person who is related to the trustee or member and such person is employed by the board of education or school district or would be financially impacted by such vote.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD07565-01-9

Reflowed for reading: line numbers and page breaks removed. Cite the official text.

Summaries, headlines and scores are AI-generated from the official bill text. How we score bills. Source: NYS Open Legislation.