Bill Text: NY A04976 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the state university trustees to establish a process to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-01 - print number 4976a [A04976 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04976-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4976--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MONTESA-
          NO, PERRY, RIVERA -- 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 commit-
          tee
        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 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. 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    § 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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