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Mar 20, 2014 |
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Senate Bill S6856
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R) Senate District
2013-S6856 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-S6856 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6856 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to meet- ings of the board of regents PURPOSE: To require the Board the Regents to hold its meetings throughout the regions of New York State. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends Section 204 of the Education Law to require the Board of Regents to hold at least one meeting in each calendar year in each Judicial District outside of New York City and at least one meeting in each calendar year in New York City. JUSTIFICATION: New York State Law does not specify where the Board of Regents shall hold its meetings. Therefore, the vast majority of its meetings are held in Albany, inside the New York State Department of Education Building. This pattern of almost always meeting in the same city, in the same part of the state, prevents nearly the entire public from attending and participating in the meetings of the Board of Regents.
2013-S6856 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6856 I N S E N A T E March 20, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to meetings of the board of regents THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 204 of the education law is amended to read as follows: S 204. Meetings and absences. The regents may provide for regular meetings, and the chancellor, or the commissioner of education, or any five regents, may at any time call a special meeting of the board of regents and fix the time and place therefor; and at least ten days' notice of every meeting shall be mailed to the usual address of each regent. If any regent shall fail to attend three consecutive meetings, without excuse accepted as satisfactory by the regents, he may be deemed to have resigned and the regents shall then report the vacancy to the legislature, which shall fill it. THE REGENTS SHALL HOLD AT LEAST ONE MEETING IN EACH CALENDAR YEAR IN EACH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY AND AT LEAST ONE MEETING IN EACH CALENDAR YEAR IN NEW YORK CITY. S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is author- ized to be made on or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14401-01-4
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