A 996: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 996 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, COOK -- 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. LBD00374-01-5