STATE OF NEW YORK
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6776
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, CLEARE, KRUEGER, SKOUFIS -- 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 establishing a student
activity fee to fund the student assembly of 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 355-f
2 to read as follows:
3 § 355-f. Student activity fee. 1. There shall be assessed a fee of no
4 less than one dollar per semester to each enrolled student at a college
5 or institution of the state university.
6 2. Such fee shall be wholly the property of the student assembly of
7 the state university. No institution or persons other than the student
8 assembly of the state university shall be entitled to any apportionment
9 of such student activity fee, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision
10 of any rule or law.
11 3. The revenue generated by such student activity fee shall be
12 utilized at the sole discretion of the student assembly of the state
13 university.
14 4. The student activity fee shall be assessed and collected concurrent
15 with the standard bill schedule of a college or institution. Each such
16 college or institution shall deliver the collected fee to the student
17 assembly of the state university within thirty days of such collection.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11251-01-5
