Bill Text: NY A08220 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain non-resident undergraduate students attending the state university college of arts and sciences at Potsdam.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in higher education [A08220 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08220-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8220 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALCZYK, BLANKENBUSH, SMULLEN, SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing eligible non-resident undergraduate students to pay separate tuition rates for attendance at the state university college of arts and sciences at Potsdam; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira- tion 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 twenty--two thousand twenty-one 4 academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty-four--two thousand 5 twenty-five academic year, the board of trustees of the state university 6 may designate the state university college of arts and sciences at Pots- 7 dam for participation in a program allowing eligible non-resident under- 8 graduate students that reside within two hundred miles of the institu- 9 tion to pay separate tuition rates for attendance at such institution. 10 Such institution shall consider out-of-state competition, current or 11 projected levels of high school graduates within the institution's 12 recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical location of the 13 institution, if such institution participates in the program. The board 14 of trustees of the state university is further authorized to set such 15 separate tuition rates, which shall not be set below an amount equal to 16 one and one-half times the in-state tuition rate at the designated 17 institution. Such separate tuition rates may be offered only to eligible 18 non-resident students, the total of which shall not exceed ten percent 19 of enrollment at the designated institution. The institution shall 20 report annually to the board of trustees of the state university on the 21 impact of this program. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be 23 deemed repealed June 1, 2025. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06989-01-9
