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Senate Bill S1043

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires four appointees as state university trustees to be alumni of an educational unit of the state university

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2009-S1043 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง353, Ed L

2009-S1043 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires four appointees as state university trustees to be alumni of an educational unit in the state university.

2009-S1043 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1043

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE, MORAHAN, ONORATO, PARKER, SEWARD -- 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 the membership of the
  state university trustees

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

  Section  1.    Subdivision  1  of section 353 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 127 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  The  state  university shall be governed, and all of its corporate
powers exercised, by a board of trustees. Such board  shall  consist  of
seventeen  members,  fifteen  of whom shall be appointed by the governor
with the advice and consent of the senate, one  of  whom  shall  be  the
president  of  the  student assembly of the state university, ex-officio
and voting, and one of whom shall be the  president  of  the  university
faculty senate, ex-officio and non-voting. Such ex-officio members shall
be  subject  to  every  provision of any general, special, or local law,
ordinance, charter, code, rule, or regulation  applying  to  the  voting
members  of  such  board  with respect to the discharge of their duties,
including, but not limited to, those provisions setting forth  codes  of
ethics,  disclosure  requirements,  and prohibiting business and profes-
sional activities.  FOUR OF THE MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR  SHALL
BE  ALUMNI OF AN EDUCATIONAL UNIT IN THE STATE UNIVERSITY; PROVIDED THAT
FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION A FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER OR  TRUSTEE
OF A STATE-OPERATED INSTITUTION, A FORMER TRUSTEE OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OF  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY,  A  FORMER  CHANCELLOR OR VICE CHANCELLOR, A
FORMER ADMINISTRATOR SERVING AT THE PRESIDENTIAL OR VICE PRESIDENTIAL OR
EQUIVALENT LEVEL, OR A FORMER MEMBER OF THE FACULTY  OF  AN  EDUCATIONAL
UNIT  IN  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY WHO HAS BEEN TENURED OR WHO SERVED AS A
PROFESSOR OR AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OR THE EQUIVALENT FOR AT LEAST  FOUR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05387-01-9

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