Bill Text: NY S00290 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S00290 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00290-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           290

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- 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  establishing  a  SUNY
          four-year  college  of engineering and applied sciences in the city of
          Yonkers

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  352 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 13 of the  laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  The  state university shall consist of the four university centers
     5  at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated  colleges
     6  of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo,
     7  New  Paltz,  Old  Westbury,  Oneonta,  Oswego,  Plattsburgh, Potsdam and
     8  Purchase, the college of engineering and applied  sciences  at  Yonkers,
     9  empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges at Alfred,
    10  Canton,   Cobleskill,  Delhi,  Farmingdale  and  Morrisville,  downstate
    11  medical center, upstate medical center, the college  of  optometry,  the
    12  college  of  environmental  science  and forestry, maritime college, the
    13  college of technology at Utica/Rome, the statutory or contract  colleges
    14  at Cornell university and Alfred university, and such additional univer-
    15  sities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and research centers
    16  as  have  been  or  hereafter  may be acquired, established, operated or
    17  contracted to be operated for the state by the  state  university  trus-
    18  tees.
    19    §  2.  (a) The trustees of the state university of New York are hereby
    20  authorized and directed to immediately take all actions  to  create  and
    21  establish  within the state university system, and subject to the juris-
    22  diction of such board of trustees, a college of engineering and  applied

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01752-01-3
        S. 290                              2

     1  sciences  as  a  four-year  state  university of New York in the city of
     2  Yonkers, county of Westchester.
     3    (b)  The  board  of  trustees of the state university shall select the
     4  location of such college within the city of Yonkers and provide for such
     5  college to be an accessible, affordable, competitive,  four-year,  bach-
     6  elor's level, degree-granting college of the state university.
     7    (c)  The  purpose  of this college of engineering and applied sciences
     8  shall be to offer majors in  industrial/manufacturing,  engineering  and
     9  technology,  transportation  engineering  and technology, computer engi-
    10  neering and technology, telecommunications engineering  and  technology,
    11  environmental  engineering  and  technology,  biomedical engineering and
    12  technology, civil engineering and technology and the history of  econom-
    13  ics of science and technology.
    14    (d)  The  board  of trustees of the state university of New York shall
    15  conduct all the duties required under article 8  of  the  education  law
    16  upon  the  establishment  of the state university of New York college of
    17  engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, establish  a  master  plan,
    18  establish  standards  and promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
    19  for the establishment of such college.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.