Requires that no scholarship, grant or award offered by a state university of New York college shall, as a condition of eligibility, require that the student reside on campus in campus housing.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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258--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting on campus
residency as a requirement for scholarships, grants and awards offered
by the state university of New York
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 141 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 141. Scholarships, grants and awards; campus residency requirement
4 prohibited. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no scholar-
5 ship, grant, award or any other form of tuition assistance offered by
6 any college of the university, shall, as a condition of eligibility,
7 require that the student receiving such scholarship, grant, award or
8 assistance reside on campus in campus housing, except where such schol-
9 arship, grant, award or assistance is specifically designated for
10 on-campus housing or board.
11 2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any college
12 of the university from requiring that a student be a resident of the
13 state of New York in order to be eligible to receive a scholarship,
14 grant, award or any other form of tuition assistance.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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