Bill Text: NY A02849 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes community colleges offering an associates degree program in nursing to offer a four-year bachelor degree program in nursing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A02849 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02849-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2849
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing  community
          colleges  offering  an associates degree program in nursing to offer a
          four-year bachelors degree program in nursing
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  6303 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Notwithstanding the provisions of any  other  general,  special  or
     4  local law, rule or regulation, community colleges offering an associates
     5  degree program in nursing may offer a four-year bachelors degree program
     6  in nursing.
     7    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04545-01-9
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