Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to create a competition among SUNY and CUNY schools with prizes going to the schools that produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emissions; the top three schools shall receive a cash prize which shall be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4134
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. RA, McDONOUGH, CROUCH, RAIA, ARROYO, VANEL,
MONTESANO, D'URSO, GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to require the commissioner of education to create a state-wide
competition among SUNY and CUNY schools with prizes going to the
schools that produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2
emissions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of education shall create and sponsor a
2 state-wide competition among teams of students who attend the state
3 university of New York or the city university of New York designed to
4 challenge and inspire the states' brightest and most inventive college
5 students to produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emis-
6 sions. The awards for the teams competing in the competition:
7 First Place: $100,000 to the winning university with an agreement that
8 the award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
9 Second Place: $50,000 for the university with an agreement that the
10 award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
11 Third Place: $10,000 for the university with an agreement that the
12 award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02319-01-9
