Assembly Bill A8069A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the legislature's power over the board of regents

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A8069 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4519
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §215-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A1649, S915
2019-2020: A6121
2021-2022: A3881

2015-A8069 - Summary

Relates to the legislature's power over the board of regents.

2015-A8069 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8069

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 5, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. MURRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the legislature's
  power over 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  207  of  the education law is amended to read as
follows:
  S 207. Legislative power.  1. Subject and in conformity to the consti-
tution and laws of the state, the  regents  shall  exercise  legislative
functions  concerning the educational system of the state, determine its
educational policies, and, except, as to the judicial functions  of  the
commissioner  [of  education],  establish rules for carrying into effect
the laws and policies of the state, relating to education, and the func-
tions, powers, duties and trusts conferred or charged upon the universi-
ty and the [education] department.   But no  enactment  of  the  regents
shall  modify  in  any  degree  the freedom of the governing body of any
seminary for the training of priests or clergymen to determine and regu-
late the entire course of religious, doctrinal or  theological  instruc-
tion  to  be  given  in such institution.   No rule by which more than a
majority vote shall be required for any specified action by the  regents
shall  be  amended,  suspended  or  repealed by a smaller vote than that
required for action thereunder.  Rules or regulations, or amendments  or
repeals  thereof,  adopted  or prescribed by the commissioner [of educa-
tion] as provided by  law  shall  not  be  effective  unless  and  until
approved  by  the  regents,  except  where authority is conferred by the
regents upon the commissioner [of education] to adopt, prescribe,  amend
or repeal such rules or regulations.
  2.   PROVIDED   HOWEVER,  PROPOSED  AMENDMENTS  TO  PART  ONE  HUNDRED
FIFTY-FOUR OF THE REGULATIONS  OF  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  EDUCATION,  AS
ADOPTED  BY  THE  BOARD  OF REGENTS ON SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09977-01-5

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2015-A8069A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4519
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §215-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A1649, S915
2019-2020: A6121
2021-2022: A3881

2015-A8069A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the legislature's power over the board of regents.

2015-A8069A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 8069--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 5, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. MURRAY, GRAF, RAIA, RA, McDONOUGH, CURRAN -- read
  once  and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the
  Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly 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  legislature's
  power over 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 215-a of the education law is amended by  adding  a
new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
  3.  THE  ANNUAL  REPORT  REQUIRED  PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
SECTION SHALL INCLUDE A STATEMENT SETTING FORTH THE  TOTAL  EXPENDITURES
MADE  BY  EACH  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  AND  BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL
SERVICES FOR ENGLISH  LANGUAGE  LEARNERS,  IN  COMPLYING  WITH  MANDATES
CONTAINED  IN  PART  154  OF  THE  REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER. SUCH
STATEMENT SHALL INDICATE: (A) THE AMOUNT OF SUCH EXPENDITURES COVERED BY
STATE AID; (B) THE AMOUNT OF SUCH EXPENDITURES COVERED BY  FEDERAL  AID;
(C)  THE  AMOUNT  OF  SUCH  EXPENDITURES  NOT COVERED BY EITHER STATE OR
FEDERAL AID; AND (D) TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, ANY YEAR TO  YEAR  INCREASE
OR  DECREASE  IN EXPENDITURES NOT COVERED BY EITHER STATE OR FEDERAL AID
WHICH RESULTED FROM THE ADOPTION OF THE AMENDMENTS TO PART  154  OF  THE
REGULATIONS  OF  THE COMMISSIONER, AS ACTED UPON BY THE BOARD OF REGENTS
IN TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09977-04-6

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