Bill Text: NY A08141 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8141--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 10, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  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 authorizing the  board
          of  trustees of the state university of New York to offer certain non-
          resident undergraduate students separate tuition rates for  attendance
          at  selected state-operated institutions; and providing for the repeal
          of such provisions upon the 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  is  authorized  to  designate selected state-operated insti-
     7  tution's of the state university for participation in a program allowing
     8  eligible non-resident undergraduate students  to  pay  separate  tuition
     9  rates for attendance at those selected institutions. In selecting insti-
    10  tutions  for this program, such board of trustees shall consider out-of-
    11  state competition, current or projected levels of high school  graduates
    12  within  an institution's recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and
    13  physical location of these institutions. The board of  trustees  of  the
    14  state  university  is  further  authorized  to set such separate tuition
    15  rates, which shall not be set below an amount equal to one and  one-half
    16  times  the  in-state  tuition  rate  at the designated institution. Such
    17  separate tuition rates may be  offered  only  to  eligible  non-resident
    18  students,  the total of which shall not exceed ten percent of enrollment
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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