Bill Text: NY A00931 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 931

Introduced

Bill Title: Prevents certain elected officials from being a member of an agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to local governments [A00931 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00931-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           931

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. MAGNARELLI, SIMON, BUTTENSCHON, COOK, LAVINE,
          JACOBSON, STIRPE, STECK, PAULIN,  GLICK,  REYES,  EPSTEIN,  LEVENBERG,
          EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general municipal law, in relation to preventing
          certain elected officials from being a member of  an  agency;  and  to
          repeal subdivision 4 of section 856 of such law relating thereto

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 856 of the general  municipal  law
     2  is REPEALED and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
     3    4.  No member of an agency shall be an elected official of the munici-
     4  pality nor shall any member of an agency be an elected official  of  any
     5  county,  city, town, or village within the county in which the agency is
     6  located. Where an individual who currently serves  as  a  member  of  an
     7  agency  would  be ineligible to serve until their term as a member of an
     8  agency has expired, the governing body of the municipality or appointing
     9  authority of the agency shall appoint  new  members  of  the  agency  as
    10  provided  in  subdivision two of this section where an individual was no
    11  longer able to serve in such a capacity.   This  subdivision  shall  not
    12  apply to any elected officials required to serve on an industrial devel-
    13  opment  agency  under  title two of this article. This subdivision shall
    14  not apply to any industrial development agency that has a board entirely
    15  composed of elected officials from the municipality that chartered  such
    16  industrial development agency.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01283-01-5