STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10159 IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Blumencranz) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the composition of the board of regents The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "regents modernization act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 202 of the education law, as amended by 4 chapter 547 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows: 5 1. The University of the State of New York shall be governed and all 6 its corporate powers exercised by a board of regents the number of whose 7 members shall at all times be at least four more than the number of the 8 then existing judicial districts of the state and shall not be less than 9 fifteen. Based on annual enrollment data collected as part of the 10 education department's student information repository system, judicial 11 districts containing k-twelve student enrollment which exceeds fifteen 12 percent of the state's total k-twelve enrollment shall be represented by 13 two members. The regents in office April first, nineteen hundred seven- 14 ty-four shall hold office, in the order of their election, for such 15 times that the term of one such regent will expire in each year on the 16 first day of April. Commencing April first, nineteen hundred seventy- 17 four, each regent shall be elected for a term of seven years, each such 18 term to expire on the first day of April. Commencing on April first, 19 nineteen hundred ninety-four, each regent shall be elected for a term of 20 five years, each such term to expire on the first day of April. Each 21 regent shall be elected by the legislature by concurrent resolution in 22 the preceding March, on or before the first Tuesday of such month. If, 23 however, the legislature fails to agree on such concurrent resolution by 24 the first Tuesday of such month, then the two houses shall meet in joint 25 session at noon on the second Tuesday of such month and proceed to elect 26 such regent by joint ballot. 27 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15349-01-4