STATE OF NEW YORK
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2489--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2015
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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.
LBD02357-04-6