Bill Text: NY A06045 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excludes certain graduate students from mandatory fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A06045 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06045-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6045

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPAR-
          DO, MITAYNES -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Higher
          Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to excluding certain
          graduate students from mandatory fees

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa-
     2  tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 11 to read as follows:
     3    (11) All current and future mandatory fees owed on  or  after  January
     4  first,  two  thousand  twenty-five,  with  the exclusion of the graduate
     5  student association student activities fee, shall not be  charged  to  a
     6  graduate student serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a grad-
     7  uate  teaching  assistant, graduate assistant, graduate research assist-
     8  ant, graduate research associate, or a graduate teaching associate.
     9    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended  by
    10  adding a new subparagraph (g) to read as follows:
    11    (g)  All  current  and  future mandatory fees owed on or after January
    12  first, two thousand twenty-five, with  the  exclusion  of  the  graduate
    13  student  association  student  activities fee, shall not be charged to a
    14  graduate student serving as a graduate  assistant,  adjunct  instructor,
    15  adjunct  lecturer, adjunct college laboratory technician or a non-teach-
    16  ing adjunct staff member.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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