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                                 7269--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 1, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Higher  Education  -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher 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  and  the  public  officers  law,  in
  relation  to  certain  activities 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.   Section 6306 of the education law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
  11. A COMMUNITY COLLEGE SHALL BE DEEMED A "STATE AGENCY", AND  MEMBERS
OF  A  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE SHALL BE DEEMED "STATE
OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES" FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF  THE
PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW.
  S  2. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 1 of section 73 of the public offi-
cers 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  3. 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:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (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]
  (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 4. This act shall take effect immediately.