S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10786
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 1, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. BLUMENCRANZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the composition 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. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
the "regents modernization act".
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 202 of the education law, as amended by
chapter 547 of the laws of 1993, is 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 AT LEAST four more than the number of the
then existing judicial districts of the state and shall not be less than
fifteen. BASED ON ANNUAL ENROLLMENT DATA COLLECTED AS PART OF THE
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S STUDENT INFORMATION REPOSITORY SYSTEM, JUDICIAL
DISTRICTS CONTAINING K-TWELVE STUDENT ENROLLMENT WHICH EXCEEDS FIFTEEN
PERCENT OF THE STATE'S TOTAL K-TWELVE ENROLLMENT SHALL BE REPRESENTED BY
TWO MEMBERS. The regents in office April first, nineteen hundred seven-
ty-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 Tuesday of such month. If,
however, the legislature fails to agree on such concurrent resolution 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.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08723-01-5
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