Bill Text: NY A10153 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of positions reserved for nomination by the governor and members of the legislature and scholarship under the SUNY Maritime admissions program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - referred to higher education [A10153 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10153-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10153

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Chang) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the admissions program
          for the state university of New York maritime college

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 352-a of the education law,
     2  subdivision  2  as  amended by section 1 of part II of chapter 56 of the
     3  laws of 2023 and subdivision 3 as added by section 1 of part F of  chap-
     4  ter 83 of the laws of 2002, are amended to read as follows:
     5    2.  (a)  Maritime  college  shall have a total of [two hundred eighty-
     6  four] four hundred thirty-seven vacancy positions set aside  for  appli-
     7  cants  who are nominated by the governor, a state senator or a member of
     8  the assembly. Such vacancy nominations shall increase or decrease  based
     9  upon the number of senate districts authorized pursuant to article three
    10  of  the  New  York  state constitution. An applicant who receives such a
    11  nomination, is accepted for admission into the college and  participates
    12  in  the  regimental  program  shall  receive  a scholarship equal to the
    13  amount of the state tuition charge after the deduction of any  available
    14  grant  aid for the four consecutive years following his or her admission
    15  into the program provided, however, that  the  student  remains  in  the
    16  regimental/cadet degree program and remains at all times in good academ-
    17  ic  standing as determined by the maritime college administration. In no
    18  event shall a student lose [his or her]  their  scholarship  based  upon
    19  legislative  reapportionment  or  changes  in legislative composition or
    20  membership.  Nothing herein shall be construed to limit  or  reduce  the
    21  number of vacancies available to the general population.
    22    (b)  To  be  eligible  to receive such nomination and scholarship, the
    23  applicant must be a resident of the state. For purposes of this section,
    24  a state resident shall be defined as a person who  has  resided  in  the
    25  state of New York for a period of at least one year prior to the time of
    26  nomination,  is  a  graduate  or  within  one year of graduation from an
    27  approved high school or has attained a New York state high school equiv-
    28  alency diploma or its equivalent as determined by the commissioner.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 10153                            2

     1    3. The vacancy nominations shall be distributed as follows:  five  for
     2  the  governor,  five for the majority leader of the senate, five for the
     3  speaker of the assembly, two for  each  state  senator  other  than  the
     4  majority  leader  of  the  senate  and  [one] two for each member of the
     5  assembly  other  than the speaker of the assembly. The governor and each
     6  member of the legislature shall provide one principal and three alterna-
     7  tive nominations for consideration for admission. Final admission  deci-
     8  sions shall remain with the college and within administrative procedures
     9  and criteria.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.