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                                  6334

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            December 9, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to certain activ-
  ities by members of a board of a community college

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 1 of section 73 of the public
officers law, as amended by chapter 283 of the laws of 1996, is  amended
to read as follows:
  (g)  The term "state agency" shall mean any state department, or divi-
sion, board, commission, or bureau of any state department,  any  public
benefit  corporation,  public  authority  or  commission at least one of
whose members is appointed by the governor, or the state  university  of
New  York  or  the  city  university  of  New  York, including all their
constituent units [except] INCLUDING community  colleges  of  the  state
university of New York and the independent institutions operating [stat-
utory] STATUTORILY, or contract colleges on behalf of the state.
  S  2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 73 of the public offi-
cers law, as amended by chapter 242 of the laws of 1989, is  amended  to
read as follows:
  (i) The term "state officer or employee" shall mean:
  (i) heads of state departments and their deputies and assistants other
than  members  of the board of regents of the university of the state of
New York who receive no compensation or are compensated on  a  per  diem
basis;
  (ii) officers and employees of statewide elected officials;
  (iii)  officers  and  employees of state departments, boards, bureaus,
divisions, commissions, councils or  other  state  agencies  other  than
officers  of such boards, commissions or councils who receive no compen-
sation or are compensated on a per diem basis; [and]

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (iv) members or directors of public  authorities,  other  than  multi-
state  authorities, public benefit corporations and commissions at least
one of whose members is appointed by the governor, who  receive  compen-
sation  other  than  on a per diem basis, and employees of such authori-
ties, corporations and commissions[.]; AND
  (V)  MEMBERS  OF A BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE REGARDLESS
OF WHETHER THEY RECEIVE COMPENSATION.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.