Bill Text: NY S00549 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain non-resident undergraduate students attending selected state-operated institutions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-07 - referred to higher education [S00549 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00549-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         549--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher  Education
          -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  allowing  eligible
          non-resident  undergraduate students to pay separate tuition rates for
          attendance at certain institutions; and providing for  the  repeal  of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of  the  educa-
     2  tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 4-a to read as follows:
     3    (4-a)  Commencing  with the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty
     4  academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty-three--two  thousand
     5  twenty-four academic year, the board of trustees of the state university
     6  may  designate  Fredonia and Alfred state universities for participation
     7  in a program allowing eligible non-resident undergraduate students  that
     8  reside  within  two hundred miles of a selected institution to pay sepa-
     9  rate tuition rates for attendance at those selected  institutions.  Such
    10  institutions  in  this  program shall consider out-of-state competition,
    11  current or projected levels of high school graduates  within  an  insti-
    12  tution's  recruitment  region,  and  enrollment  capacity  and  physical
    13  location of these institutions, if such institution participates in  the
    14  program.  The  board  of  trustees  of  the  state university is further
    15  authorized to set such separate tuition rates, which shall  not  be  set
    16  below  an  amount  equal  to one and one-half times the in-state tuition
    17  rate at the designated institution.  Such separate tuition rates may  be
    18  offered only to eligible non-resident students, the total of which shall
    19  not  exceed  ten  percent  of enrollment at each designated institution.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06202-02-8

        S. 549--A                           2
     1  Each state-operated institution that is selected  for  participation  in
     2  this program shall report annually to the board of trustees of the state
     3  university on the impact of this program.
     4    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be
     5  deemed repealed June 1, 2024.
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