STATE OF NEW YORK
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454
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to crediting of student
progress in licensed trade or registered business schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph f of subdivision 4 of section 5002 of the educa-
2 tion law, as added by chapter 457 of the laws of 2003, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 f. Notwithstanding any other provision of [the] law, a [not-for-pro-
5 fit] licensed trade or registered business school, [that is eligible for
6 participation in the tuition assistance program and which has national
7 accreditation] accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the
8 United States department of education, may[, for the purpose of calcu-
9 lation of federal financial aid amounts only,] measure students' academ-
10 ic progress in an approved curriculum in non-degree granting credit
11 hours, based upon [a national] such accrediting agency's conversion and
12 approval of clock hours to non-degree granting credit hours. [For the
13 purposes of this paragraph, "national accreditation" shall mean accredi-
14 tation by a national accrediting agency as defined in the commissioner's
15 regulations.] The schools' catalog and enrollment agreement shall state
16 that the non-degree granting credit hours do not lead to any degree and
17 are not equivalent to a credit hour offered at a degree granting insti-
18 tution. The schools' catalog will list the length of each course in both
19 clock hours and the corresponding amount of non-degree granting credit
20 hours.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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