Bill Text: NY S00216 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that regents of the University of the state of New York in office March 31, 2016 shall hold office until June 30th of the year in which such term expires; also provides that commencing July 1, 2016 each regent shall be elected to a term of five years with each such term to expire on the last day of June and the election by the legislature to be held on or before the first Tuesday of May; also provides that if the legislature fails to agree on the election by the first Tuesday in May, then the legislature shall meet in joint session at noon on the third Tuesday in May to elect such regent by ballot; further provides that such election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly certify no later than March first that such election would conflict with religious observances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-09 - referred to higher education [S00216 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00216-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         216--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the terms of office of
          the regents of the University of the State of New York
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 202 of the education law,
     2  subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 547 of the laws of 1993, subdivision
     3  2 as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 1984  and  as  designated  by
     4  chapter 892 of the laws of 1985, are 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 four more than  the  number  of  the  then
     8  existing  judicial  districts  of  the  state and shall not be less than
     9  fifteen.  [The regents in office April first, nineteen hundred  seventy-
    10  four  shall  hold office, in the order of their election, for such times
    11  that the term of one such regent will expire in each year on  the  first
    12  day  of  April.  Commencing  April first, nineteen hundred seventy-four,
    13  each regent shall be elected for a term of seven years, each  such  term
    14  to  expire  on the first day of April.] Commencing on April first, nine-
    15  teen hundred ninety-four, each regent shall be elected  for  a  term  of
    16  five years, each such term to expire on the first day of April.  Regents
    17  in  office  March  thirty-first, two thousand sixteen, shall hold office
    18  until June thirtieth of the year  in  which  such  regents'  term  shall
    19  expire.  Commencing  July first, two thousand sixteen, each regent shall
    20  be elected to a term of five years, each such term to expire on the last
    21  day of June. Each regent shall be elected by the legislature by  concur-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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