Bill Text: NY A02895 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to classification of community colleges and trustees of such colleges for the purposes of engaging in business or professional activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A02895 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02895-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2895
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Higher Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law  and the public officers law, in
          relation to certain activities by members of a board  of  a  community
          college
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 6306 of the education law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11.  A community college shall be deemed a "state agency", and members
     4  of a board of trustees of a community college  shall  be  deemed  "state
     5  officers  or employees" for the purposes of section seventy-three of the
     6  public officers law.
     7    § 2. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 1 of section 73 of the public  offi-
     8  cers  law,  as amended by chapter 283 of the laws of 1996, is amended to
     9  read as follows:
    10    (g) The term "state agency" shall mean any state department, or  divi-
    11  sion,  board,  commission, or bureau of any state department, any public
    12  benefit corporation, public authority or  commission  at  least  one  of
    13  whose  members  is appointed by the governor, or the state university of
    14  New York or the  city  university  of  New  York,  including  all  their
    15  constituent  units  [except]  including  community colleges of the state
    16  university of New York and the independent institutions operating [stat-
    17  utory] statutorily, or contract colleges on behalf of the state.
    18    § 3. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 73 of the public  offi-
    19  cers  law,  as amended by chapter 242 of the laws of 1989, is amended to
    20  read as follows:
    21    (i) The term "state officer or employee" shall mean:
    22    (i) heads of state departments and their deputies and assistants other
    23  than members of the board of regents of the university of the  state  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03803-01-9
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     1  New  York  who  receive no compensation or are compensated on a per diem
     2  basis;
     3    (ii) officers and employees of statewide elected officials;
     4    (iii)  officers  and  employees of state departments, boards, bureaus,
     5  divisions, commissions, councils or  other  state  agencies  other  than
     6  officers  of such boards, commissions or councils who receive no compen-
     7  sation or are compensated on a per diem basis; [and]
     8    (iv) members or directors of public  authorities,  other  than  multi-
     9  state  authorities, public benefit corporations and commissions at least
    10  one of whose members is appointed by the governor, who  receive  compen-
    11  sation  other  than  on a per diem basis, and employees of such authori-
    12  ties, corporations and commissions[.]; and
    13    (v) members of a board of trustees of a community  college  regardless
    14  of whether they receive compensation.
    15    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.