Bill Text: NY S02547 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that regents of the University of the state of New York in office March 31, 2019 shall hold office until June 30th of the year in which such term expires; also provides that commencing July 1, 2019 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) 2018-04-27 - PRINT NUMBER 2547A [S02547 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02547-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2547--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2017 ___________ 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-10four shall hold office, in the order of their election, for such times11that the term of one such regent will expire in each year on the first12day of April. Commencing April first, nineteen hundred seventy-four,13each regent shall be elected for a term of seven years, each such term14to 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 nineteen, shall hold office 18 until June thirtieth of the year in which such regents' term shall 19 expire. Commencing July first, two thousand nineteen, 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- 22 rent resolution in the preceding [March] May, on or before the first EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07872-02-8S. 2547--A 2 1 Tuesday of such month. If, however, the legislature fails to agree on 2 such concurrent resolution by the first Tuesday of [such month] May, 3 then the two houses shall meet in joint session at noon on the [second] 4 third Tuesday of [such month] May and proceed to elect such regent by 5 joint ballot, provided, however, that such election shall be held on the 6 second Tuesday in May if the temporary president of the senate and the 7 speaker of the assembly certify no later than March first that such 8 election would conflict with religious observances. 9 2. All vacancies in such office, either for full or unexpired terms, 10 shall be so filled that there shall always be in the membership of the 11 board of regents at least one resident of each of the judicial 12 districts. A vacancy in the office of regent for other cause than expi- 13 ration of term of service shall be filled for the unexpired term by an 14 election at the session of the legislature immediately following such 15 vacancy in the manner prescribed in the preceding paragraph, unless the 16 legislature is in session when such vacancy occurs, in which case the 17 vacancy shall be filled by such legislature in the manner prescribed in 18 the preceding paragraph, except as hereinafter provided. However, if 19 such vacancy occurs after the [second] third Tuesday in [March] May and 20 before a resolution to adjourn sine die has been adopted by either 21 house, then the vacancy shall be filled by concurrent resolution, unless 22 the legislature fails to agree on such concurrent resolution within 23 three legislative days after its passage by one house, in which case the 24 two houses shall meet in joint session at noon on the next legislative 25 day and proceed to elect such regent by joint ballots; provided, howev- 26 er, that if the vacancy [occur] occurs after the adoption by either 27 house of a resolution to adjourn sine die, then the vacancy shall be 28 filled at the next session of the legislature in the manner prescribed 29 in the preceding paragraph. 30 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
