S03132 Summary:

BILL NOS03132
 
SAME ASSAME AS A05684
 
SPONSORHUNTLEY
 
COSPNSRDIAZ, MONTGOMERY, PARKER, SAMPSON, SAVINO
 
MLTSPNSR
 
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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S03132 Actions:

BILL NOS03132
 
02/09/2011REFERRED TO FINANCE
01/04/2012REFERRED TO FINANCE
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S03132 Floor Votes:

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S03132 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3132
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 9, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. HUNTLEY, DIAZ, MONTGOMERY, PARKER, SAMPSON, SAVINO
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Finance
 
        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
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08691-01-1

        S. 3132                             2
 
     1  shall not  exceed  levels  determined  by  the  commissioner,  with  the
     2  approval of the director of the budget.
     3    2. To qualify for state assistance pursuant to this section, an insti-

     4  tution  of higher education must be a college or university incorporated
     5  by the regents or by the legislature  and  must  maintain  one  or  more
     6  earned degree programs culminating in a baccalaureate degree.
     7    3.  Moneys  made  available to institutions through contracts shall be
     8  spent only for the following purposes:
     9    a. Personal and career counseling for enrolled students;
    10    b. Diagnostic and prescriptive testing for such students;
    11    c. Instruction in subject matter and laboratory work;
    12    d. Tutoring of enrolled students;
    13    e. Financial assistance for enrolled students in  such  amount  as  is
    14  determined by the commissioner;
    15    f.  Administration  of the program, including planning and evaluation,

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

    27  sioner  may  promulgate  regulations necessary for the implementation of
    28  these programs.
    29    6. Contracts made pursuant to this section shall  be  subject  to  the
    30  approval of the director of the budget.
    31    7.  The  commissioner shall prepare an annual report of the activities
    32  of institutions which received state funds pursuant to this  section  in
    33  the  fiscal  year,  concerning, but not limited to, the effectiveness of
    34  the programs contracted for, the number of students served, the costs of
    35  the programs, and future plans therefor, and shall transmit such  report
    36  to  the  governor  and  the legislature on or before November first next
    37  following the completion of such year's summer programs.

    38    § 2. The sum of seven hundred  eleven  thousand  two  hundred  dollars
    39  ($711,200),  or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri-
    40  ated to the department of education out of any moneys in the state trea-
    41  sury in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account not
    42  otherwise appropriated, for its expenses,  including  personal  service,
    43  maintenance and operation, in carrying out the provisions of this act.
    44    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    45  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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