Bill Text: NY A02138 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state university trustees to report to the governor and the legislature concerning the steps taken to establish a process by which decisions are made to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to higher education [A02138 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02138-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 1943                                                  A. 2138
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 14, 2011
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       IN  SENATE  -- Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, DeFRANCISCO, LARKIN, RANZEN-
         HOFER, ZELDIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to
         be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
       IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  efforts  to  reduce
         duplication of academic degree programs within the state university
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 359 of the education law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    3    5. THE TRUSTEES SHALL ESTABLISH  A  PROCESS  TO  ELIMINATE  OR  REDUCE
    4  DUPLICATION OF ACADEMIC DEGREE PROGRAMS. SUCH PROCESS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
    5  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,  THE  PROMULGATION  OF CRITERIA TO DETERMINE WHICH
    6  PROGRAMS SHALL BE CONSIDERED FOR ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION,  RECOGNI-
    7  TION  OF  THE  EFFECT  OF ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION ON ACCESS TO SUCH
    8  DEGREE PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, CONSIDERATION  OF
    9  THE  FISCAL  IMPLICATIONS  OF  ANY  SUCH  ELIMINATION  OR CONSOLIDATION,
   10  CONSIDERATION OF THE RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL  SERVICE
   11  LAW  OF  MEMBERS  OF  CERTIFIED  BARGAINING  UNITS EMPLOYED BY THE STATE
   12  UNIVERSITY, AND A PROCESS BY WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE HELD BEFORE ELIM-
   13  INATION OR CONSOLIDATION OF ANY DEGREE PROGRAM.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
   15  law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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