Bill Text: NY A02233 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires SUNY and CUNY schools to refund students for housing credits and boarding charges used or charged for the period of time when such schools are closed or shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A02233 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02233-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2233 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Higher Education AN ACT in relation to requiring SUNY and CUNY schools to refund students for housing credits and boarding charges used or charged for the peri- od of time when such schools are closed or shut down due to the coro- navirus pandemic The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all colleges 2 and universities of the state university of New York and the city 3 university of New York that close or shut down as a result of the coro- 4 navirus pandemic shall refund to each student attending such college or 5 university, on a pro-rata basis, that portion of housing credits and 6 boarding charges used or charged for the period beginning March 11, 2020 7 and ending on the date such college or university was scheduled to 8 compete all classes and examinations for the spring semester of the 2020 9 academic year. 10 § 2. Such pro rata amount required to be refunded pursuant to section 11 one of this act shall be determined individually by each college and 12 university of the state university of New York and the city university 13 of New York. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03758-01-3