Bill Text: NY S04616 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain non-resident undergraduate students attending the state university college of arts and sciences at Potsdam.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-06 - referred to higher education [S04616 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04616-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4616 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 22, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, 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 the state university college of arts and sciences at Potsdam; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira- tion 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 the state university college of arts and sciences at 7 Potsdam for participation in a program allowing eligible non-resident 8 undergraduate students that reside within two hundred miles of the 9 institution to pay separate tuition rates for attendance at such insti- 10 tution. Such institution shall consider out-of-state competition, 11 current or projected levels of high school graduates within the insti- 12 tution's recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical 13 location of the institution, 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 the designated institution. The 20 institution shall report annually to the board of trustees of the state 21 university on the impact of this program. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be 23 deemed repealed June 1, 2023. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09632-01-7
