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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           549
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG, RITCHIE -- 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  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 eighteen--two thousand nineteen
     4  academic  year  and  ending in the two thousand twenty-two--two thousand
     5  twenty-three academic year, the board of trustees of the state universi-
     6  ty may designate Fredonia and  Alfred  state  universities  for  partic-
     7  ipation  in  a  program  allowing  eligible  non-resident  undergraduate
     8  students that reside within two hundred miles of a selected  institution
     9  to  pay  separate  tuition rates for attendance at those selected insti-
    10  tutions. Such institutions in this program shall  consider  out-of-state
    11  competition, current or projected levels of high school graduates within
    12  an  institution's  recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and phys-
    13  ical location of these institutions, if such institution participates in
    14  the 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.
    20  Each  state-operated  institution  that is selected for participation in
    21  this program shall report annually to the board of trustees of the state
    22  university on the impact of this program.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire  and  be
     2  deemed repealed June 1, 2023.