Bill Text: NY A09391 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to eligibility for state aid for certain independent institutions of higher learning; provides that a former two-year institution may elect to continue to receive associate level degree awards if it foregoes receiving any awards for degrees conferred at the bachelor's level.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - signed chap.136 [A09391 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A09391-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9391
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 24, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to eligibility for state
aid for certain independent institutions of higher learning
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6401 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 507 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Degree awards. The amount of such annual apportionment to each
5 institution meeting the requirements of subdivision two of this section
6 shall be computed by multiplying by not to exceed six hundred dollars
7 the number of earned associate degrees, by not to exceed one thousand
8 five hundred dollars the number of earned bachelor's degrees, by not to
9 exceed nine hundred fifty dollars the number of earned master's degrees,
10 and by not to exceed four thousand five hundred fifty dollars the number
11 of earned doctorate degrees, conferred by such institution during the
12 twelve-month period next preceding the annual period for which such
13 apportionment is made, provided that there shall be excluded from any
14 such computation the number of degrees earned by students with respect
15 to whom state aid other than that established by this section or section
16 sixty-four hundred one-a of this article is granted directly to the
17 institution, and provided further that, except as otherwise provided in
18 this subdivision, the amount apportioned for an associate degree shall
19 be awarded only to two year institutions qualifying under subdivision
20 two of this section. The regents shall promulgate rules defining and
21 classifying professional degrees for the purposes of this section.
22 Institutions qualifying for state aid pursuant to the provisions of
23 paragraph (b) of subdivision two of this section shall, for purposes of
24 this subdivision, be deemed to be the institutions which confer degrees.
25 For purposes of this subdivision, a two-year institution which has
26 received authority to confer bachelor degrees shall continue to be
27 considered a two-year institution until such time as it has actually
28 begun to confer the bachelor's degree. Thereafter, notwithstanding any
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 other provision of law to the contrary, an institution which was former-
2 ly a two-year institution for the purposes of this section and which was
3 granted authority by the regents to confer bachelor degrees, (a) such
4 authority having been granted after the first day of June, nineteen
5 hundred ninety-three, but before the first day of July, nineteen hundred
6 ninety-three, or (b) such authority having been granted after the first
7 day of May, two thousand five, but before the first day of June, two
8 thousand five, OR (C) SUCH AUTHORITY HAVING BEEN GRANTED AFTER THE FIRST
9 DAY OF DECEMBER, TWO THOUSAND NINE, BUT BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY,
10 TWO THOUSAND TEN, may elect to continue to receive awards for earned
11 associate degrees. Should such institution so elect, it shall not be
12 eligible during the time of such election to receive awards for earned
13 bachelor's degrees.
14 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
