Bill Text: NY A04655 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the establishment of an appeals process for students who are denied the state resident tuition rate at any public university or college.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A04655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04655-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4655

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 21, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MAMDANI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  establishing  an
          appeals process for students denied the state resident tuition rate at
          a public college or university

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22. The state university trustees shall require that each  institution
     4  of  the  state  university establish an appeals process for any student,
     5  regardless of his or her immigration status, who  has  been  denied  the
     6  state  resident tuition rate for attending such institution. Each insti-
     7  tution shall establish a reasonable time period for  the  filing  of  an
     8  appeal  after a prospective student has received written notification of
     9  a denial of the state resident tuition rate and a reasonable time period
    10  for the institution to respond to such an  appeal.  Information  on  the
    11  right  to  such  appeal  and such appeals process shall be posted on the
    12  institution's website.
    13    § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    14  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
    15    22.  The  board of trustees shall require that each institution of the
    16  city university establish an appeals process for any student, regardless
    17  of his or her immigration status, who has been denied the state resident
    18  tuition rate for attending  such  institution.  Each  institution  shall
    19  establish  a  reasonable time period for the filing of an appeal after a
    20  prospective student has received written notification of a denial of the
    21  state resident tuition rate and a reasonable time period for the  insti-
    22  tution  to  respond  to such an appeal. Information on the right to such
    23  appeal and such appeals process shall be  posted  on  the  institution's
    24  website.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06471-01-3
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     1    §  3.  Section  6306  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. The board of trustees of each community college shall establish an
     4  appeals  process  for  any student, regardless of his or her immigration
     5  status, who has been denied the state resident tuition rate for  attend-
     6  ing  such  community  college.  The  board of trustees of each community
     7  college shall establish a reasonable time period for the  filing  of  an
     8  appeal  after a prospective student has received written notification of
     9  a denial of the state resident tuition rate and a reasonable time period
    10  for the community college to respond to such an appeal.  Information  on
    11  the right to such appeal and such appeals process shall be posted on the
    12  community college's website.
    13    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.