Relates to the funding of certain CUNY programs by the state including the city university of New York's accelerated study in associate program (ASAP) and the accelerate, complete, engage (ACE) program; state shall pay until both programs are fully funded.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11264
IN ASSEMBLY
July 25, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pichardo) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the funding of certain
CUNY programs by the state
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 6217
2 to read as follows:
3 § 6217. ASAP and ACE program funding. Notwithstanding any law, rule or
4 regulation to the contrary, beginning in the two thousand nineteen--two
5 thousand twenty fiscal year, the state shall appropriate and pay an
6 amount equal to twenty-five per centum of the annual one hundred forty-
7 one million dollars in funding for the city university of New York's
8 accelerated study in associate programs (ASAP) and accelerate, complete,
9 engage (ACE) program for the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty
10 academic year. Each fiscal year thereafter, the state shall increase
11 such funding amount by twenty-five per centum until one hundred per
12 centum of both programs is funded by the state. The maximum amount of
13 total funding by two thousand twenty-three shall not exceed one hundred
14 fifty million dollars.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16026-03-8