A05684 Summary:

BILL NOA05684
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03132
 
SPONSORGibson
 
COSPNSRStevenson, Moya, Linares, Castro
 
MLTSPNSRHooper
 
Add S6456, Ed L
 
Authorizes commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs; establishes eligibility requirements in order to attend such special summer programs; appropriates $711,200 therefor.
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A05684 Actions:

BILL NOA05684
 
02/25/2011referred to higher education
01/04/2012referred to higher education
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A05684 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A05684 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5684
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 25, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. GIBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to opportunity for gradu-
          ate education, and making an appropriation therefor
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section 1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section  6456
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6456. Opportunity for graduate education. 1. To advance the cause of
     4  educational  opportunity  in  graduate  education,  the commissioner may
     5  contract with three public or independent institutions of higher  educa-
     6  tion  for the support of special summer programs established to increase
     7  the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate
     8  students who are prepared for admission to educational  programs  beyond
     9  the  baccalaureate  degree.  In order to be eligible to attend a special
    10  summer program, a student shall have completed  the  first  year  of  an
    11  undergraduate  educational  program  as  a  participant  in  one  of the

    12  programs  for  educationally  and  economically  disadvantaged  students
    13  established  pursuant  to section sixty-four hundred fifty-one or sixty-
    14  four hundred fifty-two of this article. A student who attended a special
    15  summer program upon completion of the first  year  of  an  undergraduate
    16  educational  program  shall also be eligible to attend such program upon
    17  completion of the second year of an undergraduate educational program. A
    18  student who has completed the third or fourth year of  an  undergraduate
    19  educational  program  shall  be  eligible  to  attend  a  special summer
    20  program.   Eligible students shall be selected  in  equal  numbers  from
    21  students participating in the opportunity programs of independent insti-

    22  tutions  of  higher  education, the state university of New York and the
    23  city university of New York, respectively. Enrollment in  such  programs
    24  shall  not  exceed  levels  determined  by  the  commissioner,  with the
    25  approval of the director of the budget.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08691-01-1

        A. 5684                             2
 
     1    2. To qualify for state assistance pursuant to this section, an insti-
     2  tution of higher education must be a college or university  incorporated
     3  by  the  regents  or  by  the  legislature and must maintain one or more

     4  earned degree programs culminating in a baccalaureate degree.
     5    3.  Moneys  made  available to institutions through contracts shall be
     6  spent only for the following purposes:
     7    a. Personal and career counseling for enrolled students;
     8    b. Diagnostic and prescriptive testing for such students;
     9    c. Instruction in subject matter and laboratory work;
    10    d. Tutoring of enrolled students;
    11    e. Financial assistance for enrolled students in  such  amount  as  is
    12  determined by the commissioner;
    13    f.  Administration  of the program, including planning and evaluation,
    14  within the limitations established by the commissioner.
    15    4. Each program shall be operated for a period of eight weeks, between

    16  the first day of July and the first day of September of  each  year.  An
    17  institution  of higher education selected by the commissioner to provide
    18  a special summer program shall offer a program in health and  biological
    19  sciences;  law  and  business; or social sciences and the humanities, as
    20  determined by the commissioner.
    21    5. Institutions applying for contracts pursuant to this section  shall
    22  submit to the commissioner such reports or other information as he shall
    23  require.   The commissioner shall consider such information in determin-
    24  ing whether to enter into a contract with any institution.  The  commis-
    25  sioner  may  promulgate  regulations necessary for the implementation of
    26  these programs.

    27    6. Contracts made pursuant to this section shall  be  subject  to  the
    28  approval of the director of the budget.
    29    7.  The  commissioner shall prepare an annual report of the activities
    30  of institutions which received state funds pursuant to this  section  in
    31  the  fiscal  year,  concerning, but not limited to, the effectiveness of
    32  the programs contracted for, the number of students served, the costs of
    33  the programs, and future plans therefor, and shall transmit such  report
    34  to  the  governor  and  the legislature on or before November first next
    35  following the completion of such year's summer programs.
    36    § 2. The sum of seven hundred  eleven  thousand  two  hundred  dollars
    37  ($711,200),  or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri-

    38  ated to the department of education out of any moneys in the state trea-
    39  sury in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account not
    40  otherwise appropriated, for its expenses,  including  personal  service,
    41  maintenance and operation, in carrying out the provisions of this act.
    42    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    43  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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