Bill Text: NY A03162 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the education law, in relation to efforts to reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-23 - referred to higher education [A03162 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A03162-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3162
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 23, 2009
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       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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