Senate Bill S2750

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides that all members of the board of regents shall be elected by concurrent resolution of the legislature on the second Tuesday of March

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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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2017-S2750 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §202, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6854
2019-2020: S3308

2017-S2750 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that all members of the board of regents shall be elected by concurrent resolution of the legislature on the second Tuesday of March, regardless if such election is to fill the expired term of a regent or to fill the unexpired term of a regent.

2017-S2750 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2750 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2750
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- 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  election  of  the
   members 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. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 202 of the  education  law,
 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 547 of the laws of 1993 and subdivi-
 sion  2  as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 1984 and as designated
 by chapter 892 of the laws of 1985, are amended to read as follows:
   1. The University of the State of New York shall be governed  and  all
 its corporate powers exercised by a board of regents the number of whose
 members  shall  at  all  times  be four more than the number of the then
 existing judicial districts of the state and  shall  not  be  less  than
 fifteen.    The regents in office April first, nineteen hundred seventy-
 four shall hold office, in the order of their election, for  such  times
 that  the  term of one such regent will expire in each year on the first
 day of April. Commencing April  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-four,
 each  regent  shall be elected for a term of seven years, each such term
 to expire on the first day of April. Commencing on April first, nineteen
 hundred ninety-four, each regent shall be elected for  a  term  of  five
 years,  each such term to expire on the first day of April.  Each regent
 shall be elected by the legislature  by  concurrent  resolution  in  the
 preceding  March, on or before the [first] SECOND Tuesday of such month.
 [If, however, the legislature fails to agree on such  concurrent  resol-
 ution by the first Tuesday of such month, then the two houses shall meet
 in joint session at noon on the second Tuesday of such month and proceed
 to elect such regent by joint ballot.]
   2.  All  vacancies in such office, either for full or unexpired terms,
 shall be so filled that there shall always be in the membership  of  the
 board  of  regents  at  least  one  resident  of  each  of  the judicial
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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