STATE OF NEW YORK
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3976
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 1, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BIAGGI, BORREL-
LO, BOYLE, GALLIVAN, GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAPLAN,
KENNEDY, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MAYER, MYRIE, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SAVINO,
SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, THOMAS -- 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 providing a program
fee option for graduate students
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa-
2 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 11 to read as follows:
3 (11) The trustees shall also establish an access fee option that would
4 allow a student who is a candidate for a graduate or professional degree
5 and has completed at least thirty credits, and is on leave from full-
6 time study, to maintain access to certain facilities within the state
7 university such as libraries, computers and/or student centers in order
8 to continue a research project or to pursue other academic requirements
9 established by the state university, without being enrolled in regular
10 credit courses. Such fee shall not exceed the cost of one credit of the
11 student's program of graduate or doctorate course work as established by
12 the trustees of the state university. All current and future mandatory
13 university fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association
14 student activity fee, shall not be charged to a graduate student serving
15 a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate teaching assistant,
16 graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate research asso-
17 ciate, or graduate teaching associate. All current and future mandatory
18 university fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association
19 student activity fee, shall not be charged to a SUNY graduate student
20 serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate teaching
21 assistant, graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate
22 research associate, or graduate teaching associate, or to a CUNY gradu-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07601-01-1
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1 ate student serving as a graduate assistant, adjunct instructor, adjunct
2 lecturer, adjunct college laboratory technician or a non-teaching
3 adjunct staff member.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
