Bill Text: NY S00021 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state university trustees to report to the governor and the legislature concerning the steps taken to establish a process by which decisions are made to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S00021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00021-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          21
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE,  DeFRANCISCO,  LARKIN  -- read twice and
         ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
         Higher Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to efforts to reduce
         duplication of academic degree programs within the state university
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 359 of the education law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    3    6.  THE  TRUSTEES  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A  PROCESS TO ELIMINATE OR REDUCE
    4  DUPLICATION OF ACADEMIC DEGREE PROGRAMS. SUCH PROCESS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
    5  NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE  PROMULGATION  OF  CRITERIA  TO  DETERMINE  WHICH
    6  PROGRAMS  SHALL BE CONSIDERED FOR ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION, RECOGNI-
    7  TION OF THE EFFECT OF ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION  ON  ACCESS  TO  SUCH
    8  DEGREE  PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, CONSIDERATION OF
    9  THE FISCAL  IMPLICATIONS  OF  ANY  SUCH  ELIMINATION  OR  CONSOLIDATION,
   10  CONSIDERATION  OF THE RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE
   11  LAW OF MEMBERS OF CERTIFIED  BARGAINING  UNITS  EMPLOYED  BY  THE  STATE
   12  UNIVERSITY, AND A PROCESS BY WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE HELD BEFORE ELIM-
   13  INATION OR CONSOLIDATION OF ANY DEGREE PROGRAM.
   14    S  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
   15  law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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