Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain non-resident undergraduate students attending selected state-operated institutions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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549--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
-- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing eligible
non-resident undergraduate students to pay separate tuition rates for
attendance at certain institutions; and providing for the repeal of
such provisions upon expiration thereof
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 4-a to read as follows:
3 (4-a) Commencing with the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty
4 academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand
5 twenty-four academic year, the board of trustees of the state university
6 may designate Fredonia and Alfred state universities for participation
7 in a program allowing eligible non-resident undergraduate students that
8 reside within two hundred miles of a selected institution to pay sepa-
9 rate tuition rates for attendance at those selected institutions. Such
10 institutions in this program shall consider out-of-state competition,
11 current or projected levels of high school graduates within an insti-
12 tution's recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical
13 location of these institutions, if such institution participates in the
14 program. The board of trustees of the state university is further
15 authorized to set such separate tuition rates, which shall not be set
16 below an amount equal to one and one-half times the in-state tuition
17 rate at the designated institution. Such separate tuition rates may be
18 offered only to eligible non-resident students, the total of which shall
19 not exceed ten percent of enrollment at each designated institution.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Each state-operated institution that is selected for participation in
2 this program shall report annually to the board of trustees of the state
3 university on the impact of this program.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be
5 deemed repealed June 1, 2024.
