Bill Text: NY A03495 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to classification of community colleges and trustees of such colleges for the purposes of engaging in business or professional activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to higher education [A03495 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03495-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3495 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law and the public officers law, in relation to certain activities by members of a board of a community college The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 6306 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 11 to read as follows: 3 11. A community college shall be deemed a "state agency", and members 4 of a board of trustees of a community college shall be deemed "state 5 officers or employees" for the purposes of section seventy-three of the 6 public officers law. 7 § 2. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 1 of section 73 of the public offi- 8 cers law, as amended by chapter 283 of the laws of 1996, is amended to 9 read as follows: 10 (g) The term "state agency" shall mean any state department, or divi- 11 sion, board, commission, or bureau of any state department, any public 12 benefit corporation, public authority or commission at least one of 13 whose members is appointed by the governor, or the state university of 14 New York or the city university of New York, including all their 15 constituent units [except] including community colleges of the state 16 university of New York and the independent institutions operating [stat-17utory] statutorily, or contract colleges on behalf of the state. 18 § 3. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 73 of the public offi- 19 cers law, as amended by chapter 242 of the laws of 1989, is amended to 20 read as follows: 21 (i) The term "state officer or employee" shall mean: 22 (i) heads of state departments and their deputies and assistants other 23 than members of the board of regents of the university of the state of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05251-01-7A. 3495 2 1 New York who receive no compensation or are compensated on a per diem 2 basis; 3 (ii) officers and employees of statewide elected officials; 4 (iii) officers and employees of state departments, boards, bureaus, 5 divisions, commissions, councils or other state agencies other than 6 officers of such boards, commissions or councils who receive no compen- 7 sation or are compensated on a per diem basis; [and] 8 (iv) members or directors of public authorities, other than multi- 9 state authorities, public benefit corporations and commissions at least 10 one of whose members is appointed by the governor, who receive compen- 11 sation other than on a per diem basis, and employees of such authori- 12 ties, corporations and commissions[.]; and 13 (v) members of a board of trustees of a community college regardless 14 of whether they receive compensation. 15 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.