Bill Text: NY A08141 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain non-resident undergraduate students attending selected state-operated institutions.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-31 - print number 8141c [A08141 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08141-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8141--C 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 10, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RYAN, WOERNER, GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- 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 -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing eligible non-resident undergraduate students to pay separate tuition rates for attendance at certain institutions; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof 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 4-a to read as follows: 3 (4-a) Commencing with the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eigh- 4 teen academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty-one--two thou- 5 sand twenty-two academic year, the board of trustees of the state 6 university may designate Fredonia and Alfred State for participation in 7 a program allowing eligible non-resident undergraduate students that 8 reside within two hundred miles of a selected institution to pay sepa- 9 rate tuition rates for attendance at those selected institutions. Such 10 institutions in this program shall consider out-of-state competition, 11 current or projected levels of high school graduates within an insti- 12 tution's recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical 13 location of these institutions, if such institution participates in the 14 program. The board of trustees of the state university is further 15 authorized to set such separate tuition rates, which shall not be set 16 below an amount equal to one and one-half times the in-state tuition 17 rate at the designated institution. Such separate tuition rates may be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09082-12-6A. 8141--C 2 1 offered only to eligible non-resident students, the total of which shall 2 not exceed ten percent of enrollment at each designated institution. 3 Each state-operated institution that is selected for participation in 4 this program shall report annually to the board of trustees of the state 5 university on the impact of this program. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be 7 deemed repealed June 1, 2022.
