Bill Text: NY A11264 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the funding of certain CUNY programs by the state including the city university of New York's accelerated study in associate program (ASAP) and the accelerate, complete, engage (ACE) program; state shall pay until both programs are fully funded.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-07-25 - referred to higher education [A11264 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11264-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11264
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      July 25, 2018
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pichardo) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the funding of certain
          CUNY programs by the state
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  6217
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6217. ASAP and ACE program funding. Notwithstanding any law, rule or
     4  regulation  to the contrary, beginning in the two thousand nineteen--two
     5  thousand twenty fiscal year, the state  shall  appropriate  and  pay  an
     6  amount  equal to twenty-five per centum of the annual one hundred forty-
     7  one million dollars in funding for the city  university  of  New  York's
     8  accelerated study in associate programs (ASAP) and accelerate, complete,
     9  engage  (ACE) program for the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty
    10  academic year. Each fiscal year thereafter,  the  state  shall  increase
    11  such  funding  amount  by  twenty-five  per centum until one hundred per
    12  centum of both programs is funded by the state.  The maximum  amount  of
    13  total  funding by two thousand twenty-three shall not exceed one hundred
    14  fifty million dollars.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16026-03-8