Bill Text: NY A02489 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the election of regents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 26-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-25 - held for consideration in education [A02489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02489-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2489--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. GRAF, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, LUPINACCI, CROUCH,
          RAIA, RA, GIGLIO, McLAUGHLIN, BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, GARBARINO,  FINCH,
          LOPEZ,  HAWLEY, MALLIOTAKIS, FRIEND, BUTLER, MURRAY, WOZNIAK -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. CERETTO, DiPIETRO, LAWRENCE, OAKS,  SALADINO,
          THIELE, WALTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
          -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assem-
          bly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- 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
          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  thirteen, one representing each existing judicial  [districts]  district
     9  of the state [and shall not be less than fifteen.  The regents in office
    10  April  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-four shall hold office, in the
    11  order of their election, for such times that the term of one such regent
    12  will expire in each year on the first day  of  April.  Commencing  April
    13  first, nineteen hundred seventy-four, each regent shall be elected for a
    14  term  of  seven  years,  each  such  term  to expire on the first day of
    15  April]. Commencing on April first, nineteen  hundred  ninety-four,  each
    16  regent  shall  be  elected  for  a term of five years, each such term to
    17  expire on the first day of April.   Commencing  on  January  first,  two
    18  thousand  seventeen,  each  regent  shall  be elected for a term of four
    19  years, each such term to expire on the  thirty-first  day  of  December.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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