Assembly Bill A5820

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A5820 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2590-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9436

2025-A5820 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A5820 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5820
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 6 of section 2590-c of the
 education law, as amended by chapter 364 of the laws of 2022, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (a) In addition to the conditions enumerated in  the  public  officers
 law creating a vacancy[,]:
   (1)  a member of a community district education council who refuses or
 neglects to attend three meetings of such council of which  [he  or  she
 is]  THEY  ARE  duly  notified,  without rendering in writing a good and
 valid excuse therefore vacates [his or her] THEIR office by  refusal  to
 serve.  Each  absence  and any written excuse rendered shall be included
 within the official written minutes of such  meeting.  After  the  third
 unexcused  absence  the community council shall declare a vacancy to the
 chancellor.
   (2) A MEMBER OF A COMMUNITY DISTRICT EDUCATION COUNCIL APPOINTED BY  A
 BOROUGH  PRESIDENT  WHO ENGAGES IN CRIMINAL WRONGDOING OR MISCONDUCT, AS
 SUCH TERM IS DEFINED  BY  THE  CHANCELLOR,  MAY  BE  REMOVED  FROM  SUCH
 APPOINTMENT  BY  THE  APPOINTING  BOROUGH  PRESIDENT  UPON SUCH TIME THE
 COMMUNITY COUNCIL SHALL DECLARE A VACANCY TO THE CHANCELLOR.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 2590-c of the education
 law, as added by chapter 739 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   (a)  In  addition  to the conditions enumerated in the public officers
 law creating a vacancy[,]:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09853-01-5
 A. 5820                             2

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