Senate Bill S4685

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the inclusion of a faculty or staff member on the board of trustees of community colleges

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • 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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2025-S4685 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6306, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S6342

2025-S4685 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the inclusion of a faculty or staff member on the board of trustees of community colleges elected by and from among the faculty and staff of the college.

2025-S4685 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4685 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4685
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including a faculty or
   staff member on the board of trustees of community colleges
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 6306 of
 the education law, as amended by chapter 268 of the  laws  of  2003,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   Each  community  college,  except  in  the  city of New York, shall be
 administered by a board of trustees of [ten]  ELEVEN  members,  nine  of
 whom shall be appointed for terms of seven years in annual rotation, and
 [one member] TWO MEMBERS elected as herein provided, except that initial
 appointments  shall be made for terms of one to nine years respectively.
 Five members shall be appointed by the local legislative body or  board,
 or  other  appropriate  governing agency, one of whom may be a member of
 such local legislative body or board,  or  other  appropriate  governing
 agency,  four,  from among persons residing in the sponsoring community,
 by the governor and one member elected by and from among the students of
 the college who shall serve as a member of  the  board  for  a  one-year
 term,  provided,  however,  that  the  term  of the student member first
 elected shall be nine months commencing October first, nineteen  hundred
 seventy-five,  AND  ONE  OF  WHOM SHALL BE ELECTED BY AND FROM AMONG THE
 FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE COLLEGE, EX-OFFICIO AND NON-VOTING,  WHO  SHALL
 SERVE  A  TWO-YEAR TERM, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE TERM OF THE FACULTY
 OR STAFF MEMBER FIRST ELECTED SHALL COMMENCE JULY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-SIX.  The  FACULTY  OR  STAFF  MEMBER AND student member shall be
 afforded the same parliamentary privileges as are conferred upon  voting
 members,  including  but  not  limited  to  the right to make and second
 motions and to place items on the agenda.  Such  FACULTY  OR  STAFF  AND
 student  member  shall  be  subject  to  every provision of any general,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00418-01-5
              

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