Bill Text: NY A09531 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the resident undergraduate tuition for SUNY and CUNY; extends certain provisions of such law relating thereto.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-12 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [A09531 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A09531-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9531
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 6, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, SCARBOROUGH, LUPINACCI -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. ABBATE, BRENNAN, BRINDISI, COOK, CRESPO, CROUCH,
DUPREY, GOTTFRIED, HOOPER, JACOBS, JAFFEE, MAGEE, MARKEY, MOSLEY,
PEOPLES-STOKES, RIVERA, ROBINSON, ROSENTHAL, STECK, SWEENEY, WEISEN-
BERG, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher
Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to resident undergraduate
tuition for SUNY and CUNY; and to amend section 16 of chapter 260 of
the laws of 2011 amending the education law and the New York state
urban development corporation act, relating to establishing components
of the NY-SUNY 2020 challenge grant program, in relation to the effec-
tiveness thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of
2 subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law, clause (i) as amended
3 by chapter 260 of the laws of 2011 and clause (ii) as amended by section
4 1 of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2012, are amended to read as
5 follows:
6 (i) Commencing with the two thousand eleven--two thousand twelve
7 academic year and ending in the two thousand fifteen--two thousand
8 sixteen academic year the state university of New York board of trustees
9 shall be empowered to increase the resident undergraduate rate of
10 tuition by not more than three hundred dollars over the resident under-
11 graduate rate of tuition adopted by the board of trustees in the prior
12 academic year, provided however that FOR THE TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO
13 THOUSAND TWELVE ACADEMIC YEAR AND THEREAFTER if the annual resident
14 undergraduate rate of tuition would exceed five thousand dollars, then a
15 tuition credit for each eligible student, as determined and calculated
16 by the New York state higher education services corporation pursuant to
17 section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title, shall be applied toward
18 the tuition charged for each semester, quarter or term of study. Tuition
19 for each semester, quarter or term of study shall not be due for any
20 student eligible to receive such tuition credit until the tuition credit
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 is calculated and applied against the tuition charged for the corre-
2 sponding semester, quarter or term.
3 (ii) On or before November thirtieth, two thousand eleven, the trus-
4 tees shall approve and submit to the chairs of the assembly ways and
5 means committee and the senate finance committee and to the director of
6 the budget a master tuition plan setting forth the tuition rates that
7 the trustees propose for resident undergraduate students for the five
8 year period commencing with the two thousand eleven--two thousand twelve
9 academic year and ending in the two thousand fifteen-two thousand
10 sixteen academic year, and shall submit any proposed amendments to such
11 plan by November thirtieth of each subsequent year thereafter through
12 November thirtieth, two thousand fifteen, and provided further COMMENC-
13 ING IN THE TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE ACADEMIC YEAR AND
14 ENDING IN THE TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN--TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN ACADEMIC YEAR,
15 that with the approval of the board of trustees, each university center
16 may increase non-resident undergraduate tuition rates each year by not
17 more than ten percent over the tuition rates of the prior academic year
18 for a five year period commencing with the semester following the semes-
19 ter in which the governor and the chancellor of the state university of
20 New York approve the NY-SUNY 2020 proposal for such university center.
21 S 2. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section
22 6206 of the education law, as amended by chapter 260 of the laws of
23 2011, is amended to read as follows:
24 (i) Commencing with the two thousand eleven--two thousand twelve
25 academic year and ending in the two thousand fifteen--two thousand
26 sixteen academic year, the city university of New York board of trustees
27 shall be empowered to increase the resident undergraduate rate of
28 tuition by not more than three hundred dollars over the resident under-
29 graduate rate of tuition adopted by the board of trustees in the prior
30 academic year, provided however that FOR THE TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO
31 THOUSAND TWELVE ACADEMIC YEAR AND THEREAFTER if the annual resident
32 undergraduate rate of tuition would exceed five thousand dollars, then a
33 tuition credit for each eligible student, as determined and calculated
34 by the New York state higher education services corporation pursuant to
35 section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this chapter, shall be applied
36 toward the tuition charged for each semester, quarter or term of study.
37 Tuition for each semester, quarter or term of study shall not be due for
38 any student eligible to receive such tuition credit until the tuition
39 credit is calculated and applied against the tuition charged for the
40 corresponding semester, quarter or term.
41 S 3. Section 16 of chapter 260 of the laws of 2011 amending the educa-
42 tion law and the New York state urban development corporation act,
43 relating to establishing components of the NY-SUNY 2020 challenge grant
44 program, as amended by section 65-a of part HH of chapter 57 of the laws
45 of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
46 S 16. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011; provided that sections
47 one, two, [three, four, five,] six, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
48 thirteen, fourteen and fifteen of this act shall expire 5 years after
49 such effective date when upon such date the provisions of this act shall
50 be deemed repealed.
51 S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
