Bill Text: NY A06618 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain institutions to receive state aid for earned associate degrees even after being authorized to confer earned bachelor's degrees during the period from April 1, 2009 to May 1, 2009.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-23 - signed chap.361 [A06618 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06618-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6618
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 12, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to eligibility for  state
         aid for certain independent institutions of higher learning
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6401  of  the  education  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  136  of  the  laws  of 2012, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. Degree awards. The amount of  such  annual  apportionment  to  each
    5  institution  meeting the requirements of subdivision two of this section
    6  shall be computed by multiplying by not to exceed  six  hundred  dollars
    7  the  number  of  earned associate degrees, by not to exceed one thousand
    8  five hundred dollars the number of earned bachelor's degrees, by not  to
    9  exceed nine hundred fifty dollars the number of earned master's degrees,
   10  and by not to exceed four thousand five hundred fifty dollars the number
   11  of  earned  doctorate  degrees, conferred by such institution during the
   12  twelve-month period next preceding the  annual  period  for  which  such
   13  apportionment  is  made,  provided that there shall be excluded from any
   14  such computation the number of degrees earned by students  with  respect
   15  to whom state aid other than that established by this section or section
   16  sixty-four  hundred  one-a  of  this  article is granted directly to the
   17  institution, and provided further that, except as otherwise provided  in
   18  this  subdivision,  the amount apportioned for an associate degree shall
   19  be awarded only to two year institutions  qualifying  under  subdivision
   20  two  of  this  section.  The regents shall promulgate rules defining and
   21  classifying professional degrees  for  the  purposes  of  this  section.
   22  Institutions  qualifying  for  state  aid  pursuant to the provisions of
   23  paragraph (b) of subdivision two of this section shall, for purposes  of
   24  this subdivision, be deemed to be the institutions which confer degrees.
   25  For  purposes  of  this  subdivision,  a  two-year institution which has
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  received authority to confer  bachelor  degrees  shall  continue  to  be
    2  considered  a  two-year  institution  until such time as it has actually
    3  begun to confer the bachelor's degree. Thereafter,  notwithstanding  any
    4  other provision of law to the contrary, an institution which was former-
    5  ly a two-year institution for the purposes of this section and which was
    6  granted  authority  by  the regents to confer bachelor degrees, (a) such
    7  authority having been granted after the  first  day  of  June,  nineteen
    8  hundred ninety-three, but before the first day of July, nineteen hundred
    9  ninety-three,  [or]  (b)  such  authority  having been granted after the
   10  first day of May, two thousand five, but before the first day  of  June,
   11  two  thousand  five,  (C)  SUCH  AUTHORITY HAVING BEEN GRANTED AFTER THE
   12  FIRST DAY OF APRIL, TWO THOUSAND NINE, BUT BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF  MAY,
   13  TWO THOUSAND NINE, or [(c)] (D) such authority having been granted after
   14  the  first  day of December, two thousand nine, but before the first day
   15  of January, two thousand ten, may elect to continue  to  receive  awards
   16  for earned associate degrees. Should such institution so elect, it shall
   17  not  be  eligible during the time of such election to receive awards for
   18  earned bachelor's degrees.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.