| Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jun 20, 2018 | committed to rules |
| Jan 17, 2018 | advanced to third reading |
| Jan 16, 2018 | 2nd report cal. |
| Jan 09, 2018 | 1st report cal.110 |
| Jan 03, 2018 | referred to education returned to senate died in assembly |
| Mar 22, 2017 | referred to education |
| Mar 21, 2017 | delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Mar 13, 2017 | advanced to third reading |
| Mar 08, 2017 | 2nd report cal. |
| Mar 07, 2017 | 1st report cal.370 |
| Jan 17, 2017 | referred to education |
senate Bill S2750
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Kenneth P. LaValle
(R) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee
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S2750 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Rules
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §202, Ed L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2015-2016: S6854
2019-2020: S3308
S2750 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2750 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the education law, in relation to election of the members of the board of regents PURPOSE : To provide for the election of members of the board of regents by concurrent resolution, requiring approval by a majority of members within both houses of the Legislature. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1. Requires members of the board of regents to be elected by concurrent resolution and removes the option for election by joint session of the Legislature. Section 2. Makes conforming changes for the filling of vacancies on the board by concurrent resolution and sets dates for such resolutions to be voted upon. JUSTIFICATION : The board of regents is made up of seventeen members who are charged with setting education policy for students and education professionals across the State. Members of the board can currently be elected by
S2750 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2750
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 17, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- 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 election of the
members 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. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 202 of the education law,
subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 547 of the laws of 1993 and subdivi-
sion 2 as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 1984 and as designated
by chapter 892 of the laws of 1985, are amended to read as follows:
1. The University of the State of New York shall be governed and all
its corporate powers exercised by a board of regents the number of whose
members shall at all times be four more than the number of the then
existing judicial districts of the state and shall not be less than
fifteen. The regents in office April first, nineteen hundred seventy-
four shall hold office, in the order of their election, for such times
that the term of one such regent will expire in each year on the first
day of April. Commencing April first, nineteen hundred seventy-four,
each regent shall be elected for a term of seven years, each such term
to expire on the first day of April. Commencing on April first, nineteen
hundred ninety-four, each regent shall be elected for a term of five
years, each such term to expire on the first day of April. Each regent
shall be elected by the legislature by concurrent resolution in the
preceding March, on or before the [first] SECOND Tuesday of such month.
[If, however, the legislature fails to agree on such concurrent resol-
ution by the first Tuesday of such month, then the two houses shall meet
in joint session at noon on the second Tuesday of such month and proceed
to elect such regent by joint ballot.]
2. All vacancies in such office, either for full or unexpired terms,
shall be so filled that there shall always be in the membership of the
board of regents at least one resident of each of the judicial
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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