Bill Text: NY S07654 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that tuition for the state university of New York and the city university of New York shall not be increased for certain academic years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-04 - PRINT NUMBER 7654A [S07654 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07654-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7654--A IN SENATE February 4, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, AKSHAR, BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing that tuition for the state university of New York and the city university of New York shall not be increased for certain academic years The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Clause (ii) 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 (ii) Commencing with the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen 5 academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty--two thousand twen- 6 ty-one academic year the state university of New York board of trustees 7 shall be empowered to increase the resident undergraduate rate of 8 tuition by not more than two hundred dollars over the resident under- 9 graduate rate of tuition adopted by the board of trustees in the prior 10 academic year, provided, however, that beginning in academic year two 11 thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one and ending in academic year two 12 thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five, the annual rate of 13 tuition shall not be increased, provided further, however, that if the 14 annual resident undergraduate rate of tuition would exceed five thousand 15 dollars, then a tuition credit for each eligible student, as determined 16 and calculated by the New York state higher education services corpo- 17 ration pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title, 18 shall be applied toward the tuition charged for each semester, quarter 19 or term of study and such cost shall be provided to the state university 20 of New York through state general fund operating support. Tuition for 21 each semester, quarter or term of study shall not be due for any student 22 eligible to receive such tuition credit until the tuition credit is 23 calculated and applied against the tuition charged for the corresponding 24 semester, quarter or term. [Provided, further that the revenue resulting25from an increase in the rate of tuition shall be allocated to eachEXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14955-02-0S. 7654--A 2 1campus pursuant to a plan approved by the board of trustees to support2investments in new classroom faculty, instruction, initiatives to3improve student success and on-time completion and a tuition credit for4each eligible student.] 5 § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6 6206 to the education law, as amended by section 2 of part JJJ of chap- 7 ter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 8 (ii) Commencing with the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen 9 academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty--two thousand twen- 10 ty-one academic year the city university of New York board of trustees 11 shall be empowered to increase the resident undergraduate rate of 12 tuition by not more than two hundred dollars over the resident under- 13 graduate rate of tuition adopted by the board of trustees in the prior 14 academic year, provided however, that beginning in academic year two 15 thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one and ending in academic year two 16 thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five, the annual rate of 17 tuition shall not be increased, provided further, however, that if the 18 annual resident undergraduate rate of tuition would exceed five thousand 19 dollars, then a tuition credit for each eligible student, as determined 20 and calculated by the New York state higher education services corpo- 21 ration pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title, 22 shall be applied toward the tuition charged for each semester, quarter 23 or term of study and such cost shall be provided to the city university 24 of New York through state general fund operating support. Tuition for 25 each semester, quarter or term of study shall not be due for any student 26 eligible to receive such tuition credit until the tuition credit is 27 calculated and applied against the tuition charged for the corresponding 28 semester, quarter or term. [Provided, further that the revenue resulting29from an increase in the rate of tuition shall be allocated to each30campus pursuant to a plan approved by the board of trustees to support31investments in new classroom faculty, instruction, initiatives to32improve student success and on-time completion and a tuition credit for33each eligible student.] 34 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that: 35 1. the amendments to clause (ii) of subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of 36 subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law made by section one of 37 this act shall not affect the expiration of such subparagraph and shall 38 expire therewith; and 39 2. the amendments to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 40 7 of section 6206 of the education law made by section two of this act 41 shall not affect the expiration of such paragraph and shall expire ther- 42 ewith.