Bill Text: NY S00216 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 216--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ 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 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. LBD00896-02-6
