Authorizes the trustees of the state university to permit persons sixty years of age or over to take courses on a space available basis given therein for credit or without examination, without tuition; such eligible persons may take up to nine hours of courses for credit without tuition.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3485
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 23, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. FARLEY, ADDABBO, BRESLIN, DILAN, ESPAILLAT, FUSCHIL-
LO, GOLDEN, GRIFFO, GRISANTI, HANNON, JOHNSON, KRUGER, LARKIN,
LAVALLE, LIBOUS, MARTINS, MAZIARZ, MONTGOMERY, O'MARA, PARKER, RANZEN-
HOFER, SALAND, SAMPSON, SERRANO, SEWARD, STAVISKY, VALESKY -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the state
university trustees to make courses available for certain persons
sixty years of age or over
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section
2 355 of the education law, as separately amended by chapters 552 and 616
3 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
5 local law, rule or regulation, such regulations may permit persons sixty
6 years of age or over to [audit] take courses given therein without
7 tuition, either for credit, or without examination, grading or credit
8 therefor upon a space available basis, as determined by the president of
9 each such institution, provided that such [audit] attendance does not
10 deny course attendance at a state-operated institution by an individual
11 who is otherwise qualified under the regulations promulgated pursuant to
12 this section. For purposes of this section, persons sixty years of age
13 or over who are residents of the state shall be eligible to take not
14 more than nine credit hours of courses for credit per semester without
15 tuition.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
17 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01940-01-1
