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                                   6342
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 17, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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  including  a  faculty
   member on the board of trustees of community colleges
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6306  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  268  of  the  laws  of 2003, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Each community college, except in the city of New  York,  shall  be
 administered  by  a  board  of trustees of [ten] ELEVEN members, nine of
 whom shall be appointed for terms of seven years in annual rotation, and
 [one member] TWO MEMBERS elected as herein provided, except that initial
 appointments shall be made for terms of one to nine years  respectively.
 Five  members shall be appointed by the local legislative body or board,
 or other appropriate governing agency, one of whom may be  a  member  of
 such  local  legislative  body  or board, or other appropriate governing
 agency, four, from among persons residing in the  sponsoring  community,
 by the governor and one member elected by and from among the students of
 the  college  who  shall  serve  as a member of the board for a one-year
 term, provided, however, that the  term  of  the  student  member  first
 elected  shall be nine months commencing October first, nineteen hundred
 seventy-five, AND ONE OF WHOM SHALL BE ELECTED BY  AND  FROM  AMONG  THE
 FACULTY  AND  STAFF OF THE COLLEGE, EX-OFFICIO AND NON-VOTING, WHO SHALL
 SERVE A TWO-YEAR TERM, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE TERM OF  THE  FACULTY
 MEMBER   FIRST   ELECTED   SHALL   COMMENCE  JUNE  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-FOUR. The FACULTY AND student [member] MEMBERS shall be  afforded
 the  same parliamentary privileges as are conferred upon voting members,
 including but not limited to the right to make and second motions and to
 place items on the agenda. Such FACULTY  AND  student  [member]  MEMBERS
 shall  be  subject  to  every provision of any general, special or local
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10830-01-3
              

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 law, ordinance, charter,  code,  rule  or  regulation  applying  to  the
 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. The election of the student member shall be conducted
 in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by  the  respective
 representative  campus student association in accordance with guidelines
 established by the state university trustees.  In  the  event  that  the
 student  member  ceases  to  be  a student at the institution, [he] THEY
 shall be required to resign. The governor's initial  appointments  shall
 be for terms of two, four, six and eight years respectively and those by
 local  authorities  for  terms of one, three, five, seven and nine years
 respectively. Vacancies shall be filled for unexpired terms in the  same
 manner  as  original  selections  by  the  authority responsible for the
 original selection. The board shall select its own chairman  from  among
 its  voting  membership.  Where  two  or more local sponsors join in the
 establishment of a community college, the apportionment of the  appoint-
 ments  among them shall be made by the state university trustees.  Trus-
 tees shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be reim-
 bursed for their expenses actually and necessarily incurred by  them  in
 the  performance  of  their duties under this article. Members initially
 appointed or elected under this subdivision to the board of trustees  of
 any community college hereafter established shall take office immediate-
 ly upon their selection and qualification, but for purposes of determin-
 ing the expiration of their respective terms and the commencement of the
 terms  of  their  successors,  the  term  of office of each such initial
 member shall be deemed to have commenced on the first day of July of the
 year in which such college was established. The terms of office  of  all
 members  of  the  boards  of  trustees  of community colleges heretofore
 established, appointed or elected as provided in this subdivision, shall
 terminate on the thirtieth day of June of the calendar year within which
 such terms expire under the provisions of  this  subdivision  as  hereby
 amended.  For  the purpose of determining such year all initial terms of
 office of appointed members of  the  boards  of  trustees  of  community
 colleges heretofore established shall be deemed to have commenced on the
 first  day  of  July of the year in which such colleges were established
 and the terms of their successors for  full  terms,  if  any,  shall  be
 deemed to have commenced upon the expiration of the number of years from
 such date for which such initial appointments were made.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.