Bill Text: NY A07328 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to certain tuition waivers for police officer students of the state university of New York and the city university of New York.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-09 - print number 7328a [A07328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07328-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7328--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 6, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  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 education law, in relation to certain tuition waiv-
          ers for police officer students of the state university  of  New  York
          and  the  city university of New York; and providing for the repeal of
          certain provisions upon expiration thereof
          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 1-a to read as follows:
     3    (1-a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special  or
     4  local  law,  rule  or  regulation,  such regulations shall permit police
     5  officers, as such term is defined in section two hundred nine-q  of  the
     6  general municipal law, who are enrolled in programs leading to baccalau-
     7  reate  or  higher  degrees  at  state-operated institutions of the state
     8  university to attend up to two courses per semester or  quarter  without
     9  tuition,  provided  that  such  tuition-waived  attendance does not deny
    10  course attendance at a state-operated institution by an  individual  who
    11  is  otherwise  qualified  under  the regulations promulgated pursuant to
    12  this section.
    13    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of  the  education
    14  law,  as added by chapter 548 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
    15  follows:
    16    (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other  general,  special  or
    17  local  law,  rule  or regulation, the board of trustees shall promulgate
    18  regulations to permit [members of the New York  city  police  department
    19  employed in the rank of police officer] police officers, as such term is
    20  defined  in section two hundred nine-q of the general municipal law, who
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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