Bill Text: NY A01183 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Clarifies that the SUNY health science centers are included in the maintenance of effort provision pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws of 2011.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-11 - reported referred to ways and means [A01183 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01183-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         1183--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, DICKENS, ZEBROWSKI, LUPARDO, BARRON, COOK,
          GUNTHER,   JAFFEE,  WILLIAMS,  LIFTON,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  LAVINE,  D'URSO,
          ABBATE, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, L. ROSENTHAL,  BLAKE,  GOTTFRIED,  STIRPE,
          CRESPO,  COLTON,  JONES,  JEAN-PIERRE,  SIMON,  RIVERA, WALLACE, NIOU,
          ARROYO, CAHILL, RAMOS,  PICHARDO,  WEPRIN,  ORTIZ  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the  Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
          2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to state appropriations
          to the state university of New York and the  city  university  of  New
          York

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Clause (vi) of subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision
     2  2 of section 355 of the education law, as amended by section 1  of  part
     3  JJJ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (vi) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty-one--two thou-
     5  sand  twenty-two  and  thereafter,  the state shall appropriate and make
     6  available general fund operating support and fringe  benefits,  for  the
     7  state  university  and the state university health science centers in an
     8  amount not less than the amounts separately appropriated and made avail-
     9  able in the prior state fiscal year; provided, further, the state  shall
    10  appropriate  and  make available general fund operating support to cover
    11  all mandatory costs of the state university  and  the  state  university
    12  health  science  centers,  which  shall  include, but not be limited to,
    13  collective bargaining costs including salary  increments,  fringe  bene-
    14  fits, and other non-personal service costs such as utility costs, build-
    15  ing  rentals  and  other  inflationary  expenses  incurred  by the state
    16  university and the state university  health  science  centers,  and  any
    17  increase  in  the tuition credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05691-02-0
        A. 1183--A                          2

     1  nine-a of this title as tuition increases are enacted by  the  board  of
     2  trustees  of the state university; provided, however, that if the gover-
     3  nor declares a fiscal emergency, and communicates such emergency to  the
     4  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, state
     5  support  for operating expenses at the state university and city univer-
     6  sity may be reduced in a manner proportionate to one  another,  and  the
     7  aforementioned  provisions  shall not apply; provided further, the state
     8  shall appropriate and make available general fund support to fully  fund
     9  the  tuition  credit  pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred
    10  sixty-nine-h of this title.
    11    (vii) For the state university fiscal years  commencing  two  thousand
    12  eleven--two  thousand  twelve and ending two thousand fifteen--two thou-
    13  sand sixteen, each university center may set  aside  a  portion  of  its
    14  tuition  revenues  derived  from  tuition increases to provide increased
    15  financial aid for New York state resident undergraduate  students  whose
    16  net  taxable  income  is  eighty thousand dollars or more subject to the
    17  approval of a NY-SUNY 2020 proposal by the governor and  the  chancellor
    18  of  the state university of New York. Nothing in this paragraph shall be
    19  construed as to authorize that students  whose  net  taxable  income  is
    20  eighty  thousand  dollars  or  more  are eligible for tuition assistance
    21  program awards pursuant to  section  six  hundred  sixty-seven  of  this
    22  [chapter] title.
    23    §  2.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education
    24  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
    25    (vi) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty-one--two thou-
    26  sand twenty-two and thereafter, the state  shall  appropriate  and  make
    27  available  general  fund  operating support and fringe benefits, for the
    28  city university in an amount not less than the amounts separately appro-
    29  priated and made available in the prior  state  fiscal  year;  provided,
    30  further,  the  state  shall  appropriate and make available general fund
    31  operating support to cover all mandatory costs of the  city  university,
    32  which  shall include, but not be limited to, collective bargaining costs
    33  including salary increments, fringe  benefits,  and  other  non-personal
    34  service  costs  such as utility costs, building rentals and other infla-
    35  tionary expenses incurred by the city university, and  any  increase  in
    36  the tuition credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this
    37  chapter as tuition increases are enacted by the board of trustees of the
    38  state  university;  provided,  however,  that if the governor declares a
    39  fiscal emergency, and communicates such emergency to the temporary pres-
    40  ident of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, state  support  for
    41  operating  expenses  at  the state university and city university may be
    42  reduced in a manner proportionate to one another, and the aforementioned
    43  provisions shall not apply; provided further, the state shall  appropri-
    44  ate  and  make  available general fund support to fully fund the tuition
    45  credit pursuant to subdivision two of section six  hundred  sixty-nine-h
    46  of this chapter.
    47    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately provided that:
    48    (a)  the  amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2
    49  of section 355 of the education law made by  section  one  of  this  act
    50  shall  not  affect  the  expiration  and  reversion of such subparagraph
    51  pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws  of  2011,  as  amended,  and  shall
    52  expire therewith; and
    53    (b)  the  amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206
    54  of the education law made by section two of this act  shall  not  affect
    55  the  expiration  and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to chapter 260
    56  of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith.