STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7759
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 12, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- 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  the  calculation  of
          tuition rates for institutions for the instruction of the deaf and the
          blind
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 4211 of the education law, as added by chapter  740
     2  of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 4211. Tuition.  1. The term "tuition" as used in this article and in
     4  the provisions of chapter ten hundred sixty  of  the  laws  of  nineteen
     5  hundred  seventy-four shall mean the per pupil cost of all instructional
     6  services, supplies, equipment and the operation of instructional facili-
     7  ties as determined  by  the  commissioner.  Approved  tuition  shall  be
     8  computed  from  expenditures for which no revenue has been received from
     9  the following sources:
    10    a. receipts from the federal government;
    11    b. any cash receipts, except gifts,  bequests,  donations  and  earned
    12  interest  dedicated  by  the  directors of the institution in accordance
    13  with the regulations of the commissioner; and
    14    c. any refund made or any apportionment or payment received  from  the
    15  state  for  experimental  or special programs as approved by the commis-
    16  sioner.
    17    2. The tuition established by the commissioner  for  institutions  for
    18  the  instruction  of  the  deaf  and  of the blind as defined in section
    19  forty-two hundred one of this chapter for the two thousand  sixteen--two
    20  thousand  seventeen  tuition  rate  year  and all years thereafter shall
    21  equal the product of the tuition rate for the base year and the personal
    22  income growth index as defined by paragraph bb  of  subdivision  one  of
    23  section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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