Bill Text: NY A04275 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates community college high-technology investment program (C-CHIP) to award grants of up to $100,000 to community colleges to upgrade their educational, occupational, and training services including their facilities, labs, and high technology equipment.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - print number 4275a [A04275 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04275-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4275--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROZIC,  BRAUNSTEIN, WEPRIN, RAIA, LUPINACCI,
          JAFFEE, SKOUFIS, STIRPE, COLTON, CAHILL, MOSLEY,  PICHARDO,  DiPIETRO,
          BARRETT,  BRABENEC,  HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
          COOK, CRESPO, CROUCH, DUPREY, HEVESI, PALMESANO, PERRY, RIVERA,  SCHI-
          MEL,  SIMON,  SOLAGES  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on
          Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on  Higher  Education
          in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to creating the
          community college high-technology investment program (C-CHIP)
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Legislative  intent.  The  legislature  hereby finds that
     2  significant employment  opportunities  exist  in  growing  fields  where
     3  complex  technologies  require  advanced skills. Access to modern, effi-
     4  cient facilities and equipment will provide students with the ability to
     5  learn about, develop and apply new technologies. Having access to  these
     6  modern facilities and equipment will provide students with the knowledge
     7  and  skill required for employment in the ever-expanding high-technology
     8  sector or in other sectors of the economy, including  manufacturing  and
     9  service,  that  utilize advanced, high-technology-related processes. The
    10  legislature finds that it is proper  and  essential  for  the  state  to
    11  support  efforts  that  will  provide  students  with updated and modern
    12  facilities and equipment where skills can be learned in a  setting  that
    13  best  matches  the workplaces for which the students are being prepared.
    14  The legislature also finds and declares that a well-trained and  skilled
    15  workforce will attract businesses seeking to enhance production, modern-
    16  ize or expand as well as start up or relocate to New York state.
    17    The  legislature  hereby  authorizes  the  creation  of  the community
    18  college high-technology investment program (C-CHIP).
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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