Bill Text: NY A02680 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes community colleges offering an associates degree program in nursing to offer a four-year bachelor degree program in nursing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to higher education [A02680 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02680-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2680
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing  community
         colleges  offering  an associates degree program in nursing to offer a
         four-year bachelors degree program in nursing
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  6303 of the education law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    3    6. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF ANY  OTHER  GENERAL,  SPECIAL  OR
    4  LOCAL LAW, RULE OR REGULATION, COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFERING AN ASSOCIATES
    5  DEGREE PROGRAM IN NURSING MAY OFFER A FOUR-YEAR BACHELORS DEGREE PROGRAM
    6  IN NURSING.
    7    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    8  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05412-01-5