Bill Text: NY S03473 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to qualifications for certain appointed positions with the board of trustees for the state university and the city university of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-16 - referred to higher education [S03473 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03473-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3473--A
            Cal. No. 515

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered  to
          the  Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to trustees of the state
          university and city university

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  353 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 268 of the laws  of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  The  state  university shall be governed, and all of its corporate
     5  powers exercised, by a board of trustees. Such board  shall  consist  of
     6  eighteen  members,  fifteen  of  whom shall be appointed by the governor
     7  with the advice and consent of the senate, one  of  whom  shall  be  the
     8  president  of  the  student assembly of the state university, ex-officio
     9  and voting, one of whom shall be the president of the university faculty
    10  senate, ex-officio and non-voting, and one of whom shall be  the  presi-
    11  dent  of  the faculty council of community colleges, ex-officio and non-
    12  voting; provided that no such members appointed by  the  governor  shall
    13  also  be  a  paid employee serving at the pleasure of the governor. Such
    14  ex-officio members shall be subject to every provision of  any  general,
    15  special,  or  local  law,  ordinance, charter, code, rule, or regulation
    16  applying to the voting  members  of  such  board  with  respect  to  the
    17  discharge  of  their  duties,  including,  but  not  limited  to,  those
    18  provisions setting forth codes of ethics, disclosure  requirements,  and
    19  prohibiting  business  and  professional  activities.  One member of the
    20  board shall be designated by the governor  as  chairperson  and  one  as

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03140-02-3

        S. 3473--A                          2

     1  vice-chairperson. Of the members first appointed, two shall be appointed
     2  for  a  term  which  shall  expire  on  June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
     3  fifty-two; one for a term which shall expire on June thirtieth, nineteen
     4  hundred  fifty-three;  two for a term which shall expire on June thirti-
     5  eth, nineteen hundred fifty-four; one for a term which shall  expire  on
     6  June  thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty-five; two for a term which shall
     7  expire on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty-six;  one  for  a  term
     8  which  shall expire on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty-seven; two
     9  for a term which  shall  expire  on  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
    10  fifty-eight;  one for a term which shall expire on June thirtieth, nine-
    11  teen hundred fifty-nine; two for a term which shall expire on June thir-
    12  tieth, nineteen hundred sixty; and one for a term which shall expire  on
    13  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred sixty-one. Vacancies shall be filled
    14  for the unexpired term in the same manner as original appointments.  The
    15  term  of office of each trustee appointed on or after April first, nine-
    16  teen hundred eighty-six shall  be  seven  years,  except  those  of  the
    17  student  member  and  the  faculty  members.  Trustees  shall receive no
    18  compensation for their  services  but  shall  be  reimbursed  for  their
    19  expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in the performance of
    20  their duties under this article.
    21    §  2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  2 of section 6204 of the education
    22  law, as added by chapter 305 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read  as
    23  follows:
    24    (a)  The board of trustees shall consist of seventeen trustees. Ten of
    25  the trustees shall be appointed by the  governor  with  the  advice  and
    26  consent  of  the  senate; provided that no such trustee appointed by the
    27  governor shall also be a paid employee serving at the  pleasure  of  the
    28  governor.    Five of the trustees shall be appointed by the mayor of the
    29  city of New York with the advice and consent  of  the  senate;  provided
    30  that  no  such  trustee  appointed  by the mayor of the city of New York
    31  shall be a paid employee serving at the pleasure of  the  mayor  of  the
    32  city  of  New York.   One ex-officio trustee shall be the chairperson of
    33  the university student senate. One ex-officio non-voting  trustee  shall
    34  be the chairperson of the university faculty senate.
    35    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
    36  state university of New York and the city university of New  York  trus-
    37  tees appointed on or after such effective date.
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