Bill Text: NY A09512 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Renames the Seek Program as the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-4)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-15 - signed chap.188 [A09512 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A09512-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9512
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 7, 2010
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Higher Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to renaming the Seek
         Program as the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding  any inconsistent provision of law to the
    2  contrary, the Search for Education,  Elevation  and  Knowledge  Program,
    3  instituted  by  Percy Ellis Sutton in the City University of New York in
    4  1966, is hereby renamed the Percy Ellis  Sutton  Search  for  Education,
    5  Elevation and Knowledge Program.
    6    S  2.  Subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
    7  667-a of the education law, as amended by chapter  83  of  the  laws  of
    8  1995, is amended to read as follows:
    9    (i) The student shall not be enrolled in the higher education opportu-
   10  nity  program,  educational  opportunity program, the PERCY ELLIS SUTTON
   11  search for education, elevation and knowledge  program  or  the  college
   12  discovery program.
   13    S  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
   14  the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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