S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
March 20, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 meetings 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. Section 204 of the education law is amended to read as
follows:
S 204. Meetings and absences. The regents may provide for regular
meetings, and the chancellor, or the commissioner of education, or any
five regents, may at any time call a special meeting of the board of
regents and fix the time and place therefor; and at least ten days'
notice of every meeting shall be mailed to the usual address of each
regent. If any regent shall fail to attend three consecutive meetings,
without excuse accepted as satisfactory by the regents, he may be deemed
to have resigned and the regents shall then report the vacancy to the
legislature, which shall fill it. THE REGENTS SHALL HOLD AT LEAST ONE
MEETING IN EACH CALENDAR YEAR IN EACH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OUTSIDE OF NEW
YORK CITY AND AT LEAST ONE MEETING IN EACH CALENDAR YEAR IN NEW YORK
CITY.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is author-
ized to be made on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14401-01-4