S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1799
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 14, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, BONACIC, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, FARLEY, FUNKE,
GALLIVAN, GRIFFO, LARKIN, LAVALLE, LIBOUS, LITTLE, MARCHIONE, NOZZO-
LIO, O'MARA, RANZENHOFER, ROBACH, SEWARD, VALESKY, YOUNG -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a young
farmer apprentice program
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph gg of subdivision 4 of section 1950 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 301 of the laws of 1996, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 gg. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a board of cooper-
5 ative educational services may provide training for employment to adults
6 on a space available basis, with consideration given to occupations and
7 industries in demand, and establish reduced adult tuition rates for such
8 training. For the purposes of this section, training for employment for
9 adults shall be offered through state approved sequences or parts there-
10 of of secondary career education instruction. Adults may participate in
11 such instruction and be awarded certificates of completion, but they may
12 not earn credit based on their participation towards a high school
13 diploma. Pursuant to section forty-six hundred two of this chapter, a
14 board of cooperative educational services may establish such reduced
15 rates for participation of adults provided that participation is limited
16 to assigned instructional staff and currently used facilities in sched-
17 uled secondary career education programs, and provided further that such
18 rates may not be less than fifty percent of the tuition rates charged to
19 school districts for the participation of secondary students in the same
20 programs, unless waived by the commissioner based on application of the
21 board of cooperative educational services. This participation of adults
22 at reduced tuition rates shall be in accordance with terms agreed upon
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 by the board of cooperative educational services and the component
2 school districts receiving such services but in no case shall such rates
3 result in extraordinary costs assigned to such component school
4 districts. Boards of cooperative educational services which provide such
5 training to adults shall submit to the commissioner annually a report
6 which shall include but not be limited to the number of adults served,
7 referral source, training sequences or parts thereof taken by adult
8 participants, the tuition rates charged to them, and the gross revenues
9 realized therefrom. For the purpose of this paragraph, "adult" shall
10 mean any person under the age of twenty-one who has received a high
11 school diploma or any person twenty-one years of age or older, whether
12 or not they have received a high school diploma.
13 (2) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, TO SUPERVISE, ENCOUR-
14 AGE AND PROMOTE A YOUNG FARMER APPRENTICE PROGRAM WITHIN NEW YORK STATE
15 AND TO ESTABLISH SUGGESTED STANDARDS FOR APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS
16 BETWEEN PROSPECTIVE YOUNG FARMERS AND NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL ENTER-
17 PRISES.
18 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.