Bill Text: NY S02657 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs; establishes eligibility requirements in order to attend such special summer programs; appropriates $711,200 therefor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-14 - PRINT NUMBER 2657A [S02657 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02657-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2657--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to opportunity for gradu- ate education, and making an appropriation therefor 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 6457 2 to read as follows: 3 § 6457. Opportunity for graduate education. 1. To advance the cause of 4 educational opportunity in graduate education, the commissioner may 5 contract with three public or independent institutions of higher educa- 6 tion for the support of special summer programs established to increase 7 the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate 8 students who are prepared for admission to educational programs beyond 9 the baccalaureate degree. In order to be eligible to attend a special 10 summer program, a student shall have completed the first year of an 11 undergraduate educational program as a participant in one of the 12 programs for educationally and economically disadvantaged students 13 established pursuant to section sixty-four hundred fifty-one or sixty- 14 four hundred fifty-two of this article. A student who attended a special 15 summer program upon completion of the first year of an undergraduate 16 educational program shall also be eligible to attend such program upon 17 completion of the second year of an undergraduate educational program. A 18 student who has completed the third or fourth year of an undergraduate 19 educational program shall be eligible to attend a special summer 20 program. Eligible students shall be selected in equal numbers from 21 students participating in the opportunity programs of independent insti- 22 tutions of higher education, the state university of New York and the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06636-03-6
