Bill Text: NY S03807 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits persons 65 years of age to enroll in a limited number of state university courses for credit without tuition.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-17 - referred to higher education [S03807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03807-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3807
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 17, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FARLEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  authorizing  persons
         over age sixty-five to enroll in a limited number of SUNY credit hours
         without tuition
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph h of subdivision 2  of  section
    2  355  of the education law, as separately amended by chapters 552 and 616
    3  of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other  general,  special  or
    5  local law, rule or regulation, such regulations may permit persons sixty
    6  years  of  age  or  over to audit courses given therein without tuition,
    7  examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available basis, as
    8  determined by the president of each such institution, provided that such
    9  audit attendance does not deny course  attendance  at  a  state-operated
   10  institution  by an individual who is otherwise qualified under the regu-
   11  lations promulgated pursuant to  this  section.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS
   12  SECTION,  PERSONS  SIXTY-FIVE  YEARS OF AGE OR OVER WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF
   13  THE STATE SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO TAKE NOT MORE THAN NINE CREDIT  HOURS  OF
   14  COURSES FOR CREDIT PER SEMESTER WITHOUT TUITION.
   15    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
   16  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.
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