Bill Text: NY A09450 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the board of trustees of the state university of New York to examine and conduct a study on the creation of an equity-centered honors college for the state university of New York college at Geneseo; requires a report on the findings of such study to be submitted within 180 days of the effective date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-14 - referred to higher education [A09450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09450-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9450

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 14, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to direct the state university of New York to examine and conduct
          a study on the creation of an equity-centered honors college  for  the
          state university of New York college at Geneseo

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

     1    Section 1. The board of trustees of the state university of  New  York
     2  shall  conduct  a study on the feasibility of the creation of an equity-
     3  centered honors college at the state university of New York  college  at
     4  Geneseo, which shall include but not be limited to the following:
     5    1.  the  development  and examination of a plan for the implementation
     6  and operation of an equity-centered honors college prepared by the state
     7  university of New York college at Geneseo in consultation with  faculty,
     8  staff, and students at such college;
     9    2.  anticipated  impacts  of  an  equity-centered  honors  college  on
    10  increased enrollment;
    11    3. the benefits to minority students of participating  in  an  equity-
    12  centered honors college program, without any monetary concerns;
    13    4.  the  benefit of providing students participating in an equity-cen-
    14  tered honors college a guarantee of successful job placement; and
    15    5. an examination of the economic costs and benefits  of  establishing
    16  an  equity-centered  honors college for the state university of New York
    17  college at Geneseo.
    18    § 2. The board of trustees of the state university of New  York  shall
    19  submit  a  report  of  its  findings  and  recommendations  of the study
    20  conducted under section one of this act to the governor,  the  temporary
    21  president  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of
    22  the higher education committees in the assembly and  senate  within  one
    23  hundred eighty days of the effective date of this act.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14784-01-4