Bill Text: NY A08396 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8396 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations to require licensed private career schools that utilize state public funding with regard to student tuition or other student expenses, to provide their staff with wages and benefits substantially equivalent with the wages and benefits for staff in public higher education institutions in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A08396 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08396-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8396

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to wages and benefits  of
          staff at licensed private career schools

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 5002 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to require
     4  a school licensed under section five thousand one of  this  article  and
     5  utilizing  state  public funding with regard to student tuition or other
     6  student expenses, to provide its staff with wages and benefits  substan-
     7  tially equivalent with the wages and benefits for staff in public higher
     8  education institutions in the state.
     9    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    10  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    11  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    12  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    13  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11958-01-9