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S01411 Summary:

BILL NOS01411
 
SAME ASSAME AS A05313
 
SPONSORMONTGOMERY
 
COSPNSRADDABBO, AVELLA, DILAN, KRUEGER, PARKER, PERKINS, SAVINO, STAVISKY
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S204, Ed L
 
Requires that the NYS board of regents hold at least 2 meetings a year in New York city and requires announcements of the time, date, location and agenda thereof.
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S01411 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1411
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, ADAMS, ADDABBO, AVELLA, KRUEGER, PARKER,
          SAVINO  --  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  monthly  meetings  of

          the New York state board of regents
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 204 of the education law  is  amended  to  read  as
     2  follows:
     3    § 204. Meetings  and  absences. 1. The regents may provide for regular
     4  meetings, and the chancellor, or the commissioner of education,  or  any
     5  five  regents,  may  at  any time call a special meeting of the board of
     6  regents and fix the time and place therefor;  and  at  least  ten  days'
     7  notice  of  every  meeting  shall be mailed to the usual address of each
     8  regent.
     9    2. If any regent shall fail  to  attend  three  consecutive  meetings,
    10  without excuse accepted as satisfactory by the regents, he may be deemed
    11  to  have  resigned  and the regents shall then report the vacancy to the

    12  legislature, which shall fill it.
    13    3. a. The regents shall hold at least two meetings  in  each  calendar
    14  year in a city having a population of one million or more. Such meetings
    15  shall be held at a time to ensure parental attendance and participation.
    16    b.  (i)  The  regents  shall announce the location, time and agenda of
    17  each meeting to be held in a city having a population of one million  or
    18  more  whenever such meeting is scheduled, but not later than three weeks
    19  before the meeting date  to  allow  adequate  time  for  public  review.
    20  Provided,  however, that if an agenda for any such meeting is not avail-
    21  able, such agenda shall be announced as soon as it becomes available.
    22    (ii) Such announcements shall be made available on the regents' public

    23  website and the New York city department of  education  website  in  the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04046-01-3

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     1  same  manner  as  other public meetings are announced. The New York city
     2  department of education shall inform parent education advocates,  teach-
     3  ers,  principals  and  other school administrators of the location, time
     4  and  agenda  of  such meetings held in a city having a population of one
     5  million or more. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term  "parent

     6  education advocates" shall include, but not be limited to parent associ-
     7  ations, parent-teacher associations, school leadership teams, presidents
     8  councils,  district  leadership  teams  and  citywide  and communitywide
     9  education councils.
    10    c. At each meeting of the regents held in a city having  a  population
    11  of  one  million or more, the public shall be allotted a period of time,
    12  not less than thirty minutes, to speak on any topic on the  agenda.  The
    13  public  speaking period shall take place prior to any board or committee
    14  action.
    15    4. Every committee meeting of the regents shall be webcast in the same
    16  manner as general board meetings.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after

    18  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    19  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    20  tation  of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or
    21  before such date.
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