Requires SUNY and CUNY schools to refund students for housing credits and boarding charges used or charged for the period of time when such schools are closed or shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A2233
SPONSOR: Hyndman TITLE OF BILL:
An act in relation to requiring SUNY and CUNY schools to refund students
for housing credits and boarding charges used or charged for the period
of time when such schools are closed or shut down due to the coronavirus
pandemic
PURPOSE:
To ensure that SUNY and CUNY students are made'whole for housing credits
and boarding charges that they incurred for the Spring 2020 Semester
which effectively ended on March 11, 2020 when normal activities at the
institutions were shut down.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
This bill requires all SUNY and CONY colleges and universities that
shutdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic to refund. Or a pro-
rata basis, the portion of housing credits and boarding charges from the
period of, March 11, 2020 until the end of the Spring 2020 Semester.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Coronavirus Pandemic has shuttered normal activities and one of the
first major actions taken in New York State was the effective closing of
SONY and CONY colleges and universities. As a matter of fundamental
fairness, and to encourage students to return post-pandemic, all housing
credits and boarding charges pertaining to the period of closure, from
March 11, 2020 until the end of the Spring 2020 semester should be
refunded.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2233
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Higher Education
AN ACT in relation to requiring SUNY and CUNY schools to refund students
for housing credits and boarding charges used or charged for the peri-
od of time when such schools are closed or shut down due to the coro-
navirus pandemic
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all colleges
2 and universities of the state university of New York and the city
3 university of New York that close or shut down as a result of the coro-
4 navirus pandemic shall refund to each student attending such college or
5 university, on a pro-rata basis, that portion of housing credits and
6 boarding charges used or charged for the period beginning March 11, 2020
7 and ending on the date such college or university was scheduled to
8 compete all classes and examinations for the spring semester of the 2020
9 academic year.
10 § 2. Such pro rata amount required to be refunded pursuant to section
11 one of this act shall be determined individually by each college and
12 university of the state university of New York and the city university
13 of New York.
14 § 3. 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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