New York A 5820: Relates to providing certain accidental disability retirement benefits for Nassau county fire marshals

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A05820 Summary:

BILL NOA05820 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHyndman

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2590-c, Ed L

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

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BILL NOA05820 

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02/20/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5820

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 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:

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

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

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 1 (1) a member of a community board who refuses or neglects to attend
 2 three meetings of [his] their board of which [he is] they are duly noti-
 3 fied, without rendering in writing a good and valid excuse therefor
 4 vacates [his] their office by refusal to serve. Each absence and any
 5 written excuse rendered shall be included within the official written
 6 minutes of such meeting. After the third unexcused absence the board
 7 shall declare a vacancy and certify the existence of the vacancy to the
 8 chancellor.
 9 (2) a member of a community district education council appointed by a
 10 borough president who engages in criminal wrongdoing or misconduct, as
 11 such term is defined by the chancellor, may be removed from such
 12 appointment by the appointing borough president upon such time the board
 13 shall declare a vacancy and certify the existence of the vacancy to the
 14 chancellor.
 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 16 ments to section 2590-c of the education law made by section one of this
 17 act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such section
 18 when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take
 19 effect.

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