A04854 Actions:

BILL NOA04854
 
02/06/2025referred to education
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A04854 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4854
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 6, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  restrictions  on
          authority for the withholding of public monies from educational insti-
          tutions
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 306 of the education law, subdivision 1 as  amended
     2  by chapter 298 of the laws of 1957, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 306. Removal  of school officers; withholding public money. 1. When-
     4  ever it shall be proved to [his] the  commissioner's  satisfaction  that
     5  any  trustee, member of a board of education, clerk, collector, treasur-
     6  er, district superintendent, superintendent of schools or  other  school
     7  officer is a member of an organization listed as subversive by the board
     8  of  regents pursuant to the provisions of section three thousand twenty-
     9  two of this chapter, or has been  guilty  of  any  wilful  violation  or
    10  neglect  of  duty  under  this  chapter,  or any other act pertaining to
    11  common schools or other educational institution participating  in  state
    12  funds, or wilfully disobeying any decision, order, rule or regulation of
    13  the  regents  or of the commissioner [of education], [said] such commis-
    14  sioner, after a hearing at which the school officer shall have the right
    15  of representation by counsel, may, by an order under  [his]  their  hand
    16  and  seal,  which  order shall be recorded in [his] their office, remove
    17  such school officer from [his] office.
    18    2. [Said] Such commissioner [of education] may also withhold from  any
    19  district or city its share of the public money of the state for wilfully
    20  disobeying any provision of law [or any decision, order or regulation as
    21  aforesaid],  or  for  such decisions, orders or regulations as aforesaid
    22  whose willful violation constitutes an immediate threat to  the  health,
    23  safety,  education or welfare of students, employees or visitors at such
    24  common  school,  educational  institution,  school  district  or  public
    25  school.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01058-01-5
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