STATE OF NEW YORK
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6382--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, MITAYNES, LUPARDO, NIOU -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the
Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to excluding certain
graduate students from mandatory fees
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) All current and future mandatory fees owed on or after January
4 first, two thousand twenty-three, with the exclusion of the graduate
5 student association student activities fee, shall not be charged to a
6 graduate student serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a grad-
7 uate teaching assistant, graduate assistant, graduate research assist-
8 ant, graduate research associate, or a graduate teaching associate.
9 § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended by
10 adding a new subparagraph (g) to read as follows:
11 (g) All current and future mandatory fees owed on or after January
12 first, two thousand twenty-three, with the exclusion of the graduate
13 student association student activities fee, shall not be charged to a
14 graduate student serving as a graduate assistant, adjunct instructor,
15 adjunct lecturer, adjunct college laboratory technician or a non-teach-
16 ing adjunct staff member.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09772-05-2
