Bill Text: NY S01596 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Clarifies that the SUNY health science centers are included in the maintenance of effort provision pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws of 2011.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A934A [S01596 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01596-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 1596--A A. 934--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY January 10, 2017 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, ORTT, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state appropriations to the state university of New York and the city university of New York The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Clause (v) of subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 2 of section 355 of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part 3 JJJ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 (v) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand seventeen--two thou- 5 sand eighteen [and ending in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two6thousand twenty-one] and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and 7 make available general fund operating support[, including] and fringe 8 benefits, for the state university and the state university health 9 science centers in an amount not less than the [amount] amounts sepa- 10 rately appropriated and made available in the prior state fiscal year; 11 provided, further, the state shall appropriate and make available gener- 12 al fund operating support to cover all mandatory costs of the state 13 university and the state university health science centers, which shall 14 include, but not be limited to, collective bargaining costs including 15 salary increments, fringe benefits, and other non-personal service costs EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03117-04-7S. 1596--A 2 A. 934--A 1 such as utility costs, building rentals and other inflationary expenses 2 incurred by the state university and the state university health science 3 centers, and any increase in the tuition credit pursuant to section six 4 hundred eighty-nine-a of this title as tuition increases are enacted by 5 the board of trustees of the state university; provided, however, that 6 if the governor declares a fiscal emergency, and communicates such emer- 7 gency to the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assem- 8 bly, state support for operating expenses at the state university and 9 city university may be reduced in a manner proportionate to one another, 10 and the aforementioned provisions shall not apply; provided further, the 11 state shall appropriate and make available general fund support to fully 12 fund the tuition credit pursuant to subdivision two of section six 13 hundred sixty-nine-h of this title. 14 § 2. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 15 6206 of the education law, as amended by section 2 of part JJJ of chap- 16 ter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 17 (v) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand seventeen--two thou- 18 sand eighteen and [ending in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two19thousand twenty-one] thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make 20 available general fund operating support[, including] and fringe bene- 21 fits, for the city university in an amount not less than the [amount] 22 amounts separately appropriated and made available in the prior state 23 fiscal year; provided, further, the state shall appropriate and make 24 available general fund operating support to cover all mandatory costs of 25 the city university, which shall include, but not be limited to, collec- 26 tive bargaining costs, including salary increments, fringe benefits, and 27 other non-personal service costs such as utility costs, building rentals 28 and other inflationary expenses incurred by the city university, and any 29 increase in the tuition credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty- 30 nine-a of this chapter as tuition increases are enacted by the board of 31 trustees of the city university; provided, however, that if the governor 32 declares a fiscal emergency, and communicates such emergency to the 33 temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly, state 34 support for operating expenses at the state university and city univer- 35 sity may be reduced in a manner proportionate to one another, and the 36 aforementioned provisions shall not apply; provided further, the state 37 shall appropriate and make available general fund support to fully fund 38 the tuition credit pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred 39 sixty-nine-h of this chapter. 40 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately provided that: 41 (a) the amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 42 of section 355 of the education law made by section one of this act 43 shall not affect the expiration and reversion of such subparagraph 44 pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall 45 expire therewith; and 46 (b) the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 47 of the education law made by section two of this act shall not affect 48 the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to chapter 260 49 of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith.
