Bill Text: NY A04647 | 2023-2024 | 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) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A04647 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04647-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4647

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 21, 2023
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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 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. 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    §  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.
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