Bill Text: NY S01822 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes senior citizen students auditing community college classes in the full time equivalent state aid formula.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-14 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S01822 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S01822-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1822 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 9, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MORAHAN, BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including senior citi- zen students auditing community college classes in the full time equivalent state aid formula THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6303 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 552 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or 5 local law, rule or regulation, community colleges may permit persons 6 sixty years of age or over to audit courses given therein without 7 tuition, examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available 8 basis, subject to the provisions of section sixty-three hundred four of 9 this [chapter] ARTICLE, as determined by the president of each such 10 institution, provided that such audit attendance does not deny course 11 attendance at a community college by an individual who is otherwise 12 qualified under the regulations and the provisions of section sixty- 13 three hundred four of this [chapter] ARTICLE. The provisions of this 14 [paragraph] SUBDIVISION shall not affect any state aid to community 15 colleges granted pursuant to THIS article [one hundred twenty-six of 16 this chapter]. FOR THE PURPOSES OF DETERMINING STATE AID TO SUCH INSTI- 17 TUTIONS, SUCH PERSONS SIXTY YEARS OF AGE OR OVER WHO AUDIT CLASSES SHALL 18 BE INCLUDED IN THE FULL TIME EQUIVALENT STATE AID FORMULA. 19 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 20 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08048-01-9