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NY A 996

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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

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did NY A 996 pass?

Not yet. NY A 996 is in committee as of 2026-01-07 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO EDUCATION

What is NY A 996 about?

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.

Who sponsors NY A 996?

Philip Ramos is the primary sponsor of NY A 996, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

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.

Introduced
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO EDUCATION
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Philip Ramosprimary
  • Vivian Cookcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-08

    REFERRED TO EDUCATION

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO EDUCATION

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: A 5944not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 6691not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 3857not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 3642not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 9849not in this corpus

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/A996?summary=&detail=

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:28:30.722574Z

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