Bill Text: NY S02246 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the election of regents and the creation of the commission on regents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to education [S02246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02246-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2246--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. LAVALLE, LARKIN, MARCHIONE, MURPHY, SERINO -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High-
          er  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  election  of
          regents and the creation of the commission on regents
          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 and subdivi-
     3  sion  2  as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 1984 and as designated
     4  by 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, nineteen
    15  hundred ninety-four, each regent shall be elected for  a  term  of  five
    16  years,  each such term to expire on the first day of April, two thousand
    17  seventeen.   Commencing on April first,  two  thousand  seventeen,  each
    18  regent  shall  be  elected  for  a term of five years, each such term to
    19  expire on the first day of April.  [Each regent shall be elected by  the
    20  legislature  by  concurrent  resolution  in  the  preceding March, on or
    21  before the first Tuesday of such month.   If, however,  the  legislature

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