Bill Text: NY A07241 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides a program fee option for graduate students.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-9)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-13 - print number 7241c [A07241 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07241-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7241--C 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 18, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO, GRIFFIN, FRONTUS, REYES -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- 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 providing a program fee option for graduate students The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa- 2 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 11 to read as follows: 3 (11) The trustees shall also establish an access fee option that would 4 allow a student who is a candidate for a graduate or professional degree 5 and has completed at least thirty credits, and is on leave from full- 6 time study, to maintain access to certain facilities within the state 7 university such as libraries, computers and/or student centers in order 8 to continue a research project or to pursue other academic requirements 9 established by the state university, without being enrolled in regular 10 credit courses. Such fee shall not exceed the cost of one credit of the 11 student's program of graduate or doctorate course work as established by 12 the trustees of the state university. All current and future mandatory 13 university fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association 14 student activity fee, shall not be charged to a graduate student serving 15 a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate teaching assistant, 16 graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate research asso- 17 ciate, or graduate teaching associate. All current and future mandatory 18 university fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10054-07-9A. 7241--C 2 1 student activity fee, shall not be charged to a SUNY graduate student 2 serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate teaching 3 assistant, graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate 4 research associate, or graduate teaching associate, or to a CUNY gradu- 5 ate student serving as a graduate assistant, adjunct instructor, adjunct 6 lecturer, adjunct college laboratory technician or a non-teaching 7 adjunct staff member. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.