Regular Session 2017-2018 House Bill 2676 P.N. 4101

PRINTER'S NO. 4101

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

2676

Session of

2018

INTRODUCED BY BERNSTINE, CHRISTIANA, MAHER, MILLARD, RYAN,

THOMAS, MUSTIO, WARD, EVERETT, PHILLIPS-HILL, CORR, KORTZ,

QUIGLEY, COOK, MARSHALL, OBERLANDER, IRVIN, MALONEY, BARRAR,

TOOHIL, GROVE, KEEFER, WATSON, DAVIS, SACCONE, MACKENZIE,

ROTHMAN, A. HARRIS, CONKLIN, KAUFER, FRITZ, HELM, WARNER,

KAVULICH, CORBIN, MOUL, ROE, LEWIS, ENGLISH AND TALLMAN,

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS,

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

AN ACT

Amending the act of February 22, 1855 (P.L.46, No.50), entitled

"An act to incorporate the Farmers' High School of

Pennsylvania," further providing for management by board of

trustees, for membership, name and power of board of trustees

and for meeting, terms and successors of board of trustees.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Sections 2, 3 and 5 of the act of February 22,

1855 (P.L.46, No.50), entitled "An act to incorporate the

Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania," are amended to read:

Section 2. Management by board of trustees

(a) The said institution shall be under the management and

government of a board of trustees, of whom there shall be

[thirteen, and seven of whom shall be a quorum], beginning with

the 2020-2021 school year, not more than twenty-one voting

members and one nonvoting member, competent to perform the

duties hereinafter authorized and required. A majority of voting

members shall constitute a quorum.

(b) The board of trustees shall be comprised of the

following members:

(1) The Governor, who shall serve as a nonvoting member, ex

officio.

(2) The Secretary of Education, who shall serve ex officio.

(3) The Secretary of Agriculture, who shall serve ex

officio.

(4) The Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources, who

shall serve ex officio.

(5) Nine members who are alumni of the institution elected

by alumni of the institution under terms and conditions provided

under the institution by-laws.

(6) Three members representing the interests of business and

industry elected by regional business and industry associations

under terms and conditions provided under the institution by-

laws.

(7) Three members representing agricultural interests

elected by regional agricultural associations under terms and

conditions provided under the institution by-laws.

(8) Three at-large members who shall be elected under terms

and conditions provided under the institution by-laws, one of

whom shall be a student enrolled at the institution.

years. A member may not serve more than nine years in the

aggregate during the course of the member's lifetime. A member

appointed or elected to the board of trustees as of the

effective date of this subsection who has served nine or more

years in the aggregate may complete the member's current term

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but shall be ineligible to serve another term at the conclusion

of the member's current term.

Section 3. Membership of board of trustees; name and style

of board; power of board to take and dispose of property

The [Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, the President

of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, and the

principal of the institution, shall each be ex officio a member

of the board of trustees, which said] trustees, and their

successors in office, are hereby elected and declared to be a

body politic and corporate in law, with perpetual succession, by

the name, style and title of the Farmers' High School of

Pennsylvania, by which name and title the said trustees, and

their successors, shall be able and capable in law to take by

gift, grant, sale or conveyance, by bequest, devise or

otherwise, any estate in any lands, tenements and hereditaments,

goods, chattels or effects, and at pleasure to alien or

otherwise dispose of the same to and for the uses and purposes

of the said institution: provided, however, that the annual

income of the said State, so held, shall at no time exceed

twenty-five thousand dollars; and the said corporation shall by

the same name have power to sue and be sued, and generally to do

and transact all and every business touching or concerning the

premises, or which shall be necessarily incidental thereto, and

to hold, enjoy and exercise all such powers, authorities and

jurisdiction as are customary in the colleges within this

Commonwealth.

Section 5. First meeting of trustees; term of office;

election to choose successors

At the first meeting of the board of trustees, the [nine

names] members who are not ex officio members, shall by

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themselves and by lot be divided into three classes, of three

each, numbered one, two, and three; the appointment hereby made

of class number one shall terminate on the first Monday of

October, 1856, number two on the first Monday of October, 1857,

and number three on the first Monday of October, 1858; and upon

the termination of the office of such directors, to-wit: on the

first Monday of October in every year, an election shall be held

at the institution to supply their place, and such election

shall be determined by the votes of the members of the executive

committee of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, and

the votes of three representatives duly chosen by each county

agricultural society in this Commonwealth, which shall have been

organized at least three months preceding the time of election,

and it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees to

appoint two of their number as judges to hold the said election,

to receive and count the votes, and return the same to the board

of trustees, with their certificate of the number of votes cast,

and for whom, whereupon the said board shall determine who have

received the highest number of votes, and who are thereby

elected.

Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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