Bill Text: NY A10643 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to create a competition among SUNY and CUNY schools with prizes going to the schools that produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emissions; the top three schools shall receive a cash prize which shall be used to improve environmental programs at the university.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - referred to higher education [A10643 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10643-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10643
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 10, 2018
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Higher Education
        AN ACT to require the commissioner of education to create  a  state-wide
          competition  among  SUNY  and  CUNY  schools  with prizes going to the
          schools that produce the most cost-efficient method  of  reducing  CO2
          emissions
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The commissioner of education shall create  and  sponsor  a
     2  state-wide  competition  among  teams  of  students who attend the state
     3  university of New York or the city university of New  York  designed  to
     4  challenge  and  inspire the states' brightest and most inventive college
     5  students to produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emis-
     6  sions. The awards for the teams competing in the competition:
     7    First Place: $100,000 to the winning university with an agreement that
     8  the award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
     9    Second Place: $50,000 for the university with an  agreement  that  the
    10  award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
    11    Third  Place:  $10,000  for  the university with an agreement that the
    12  award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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