Bill Text: NY A07269 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows SUNY board of trustees to take reasonable measures to enable trustees to participate in and vote at board meetings via electronic means.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A07269 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07269-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7269
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 18, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to SUNY trustee's partic-
          ipation and voting at board meetings by means of  electronic  communi-
          cation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  226-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  226-a.  Trustee's  participation  and voting by means of electronic
     4  communications. 1. A board of trustees  may:  (a)  Implement  reasonable
     5  measures to provide trustees not physically present at a board meeting a
     6  reasonable  opportunity to participate in the proceedings of the meeting
     7  substantially concurrently with such proceedings; and
     8    (b) Provide reasonable measures to enable trustees to  vote  or  grant
     9  proxies  with  respect  to  matters submitted to the trustees at a board
    10  meeting by means of electronic communication; provided  that  the  board
    11  shall,  if  applicable  (i) implement reasonable measures to verify that
    12  each person deemed present and permitted to vote at the meeting by means
    13  of electronic communication is a trustee  of  record  and  (ii)  keep  a
    14  record  of any vote or other action taken by a trustee participating and
    15  voting by means of electronic communications at a board meeting. A trus-
    16  tee participating in a board meeting by this means is deemed to be pres-
    17  ent in person at such meeting.
    18    2. Nothing in subdivision one of this section shall limit, restrict or
    19  supersede other forms of voting and participation in such trustee  board
    20  meetings.
    21    3. For purposes of this section, "reasonable measures" with respect to
    22  participating in proceedings shall include, but shall not be limited to,
    23  audio  webcast  or  other  broadcast of the meeting and for voting shall
    24  include, but shall not be limited to, telephonic and internet voting.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10930-03-9