Bill Title: Requires the SUNY and CUNY boards of trustees and boards of trustees of community colleges to establish a policy for the awarding of posthumous degrees; requires such policy to waive any remaining credits for enrolled matriculated students who die and would otherwise have been eligible for graduation had they been able to complete their academic career.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.549 [A04942 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-057	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Alfred Taylor [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-071	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Taylor Darling [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Dana Levenberg [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-095	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Gina Sillitti [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-016	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Brian Maher [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-101	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jo Simon [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Steven Raga [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	N/A
Assemblymember Steven Otis [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-091	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember John McDonald [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-108	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Monique Chandler-Waterman [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Sarah Clark [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-136	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Gary Pretlow [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-089	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Manny De Los Santos [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-072	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-086	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember George Alvarez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-078	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-068	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Karines Reyes [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-087	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Amanda Septimo [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Harvey Epstein [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-074	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember David Weprin [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-024	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember John Zaccaro [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-080	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Albert Stirpe [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-127	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Zohran Kwame Mamdani [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-103	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Emily Gallagher [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-050	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Brian Cunningham [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-043	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Patricia Fahy [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-109	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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