STATE OF NEW YORK
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7654--A
IN SENATE
February 4, 2020
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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 resulting
25 from an increase in the rate of tuition shall be allocated to each
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 campus pursuant to a plan approved by the board of trustees to support
2 investments in new classroom faculty, instruction, initiatives to
3 improve student success and on-time completion and a tuition credit for
4 each 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 resulting
29 from an increase in the rate of tuition shall be allocated to each
30 campus pursuant to a plan approved by the board of trustees to support
31 investments in new classroom faculty, instruction, initiatives to
32 improve student success and on-time completion and a tuition credit for
33 each 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.