Bill Text: NY S03500 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excludes certain graduate students from mandatory fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S03500 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03500-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3500

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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  excluding  certain
          graduate students from mandatory fees

          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 11 to read as follows:
     3    (11)  All  current  and future mandatory fees owed on or after January
     4  first, two thousand twenty-four, with  the  exclusion  of  the  graduate
     5  student  association  student  activities fee, shall not be charged to a
     6  graduate student serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a grad-
     7  uate teaching assistant, graduate assistant, graduate  research  assist-
     8  ant, graduate research associate, or a graduate teaching associate.
     9    §  2. Subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended by
    10  adding a new subparagraph (g) to read as follows:
    11    (g) All current and future mandatory fees owed  on  or  after  January
    12  first,  two  thousand  twenty-four,  with  the exclusion of the graduate
    13  student association student activities fee, shall not be  charged  to  a
    14  graduate  student  serving  as a graduate assistant, adjunct instructor,
    15  adjunct lecturer, adjunct college laboratory technician or a  non-teach-
    16  ing adjunct staff member.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05680-02-3