STATE OF NEW YORK
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1822
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. MORAHAN, BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including senior citi-
zen students auditing community college classes in the full time
equivalent state aid formula
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6303 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 552 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
5 local law, rule or regulation, community colleges may permit persons
6 sixty years of age or over to audit courses given therein without
7 tuition, examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available
8 basis, subject to the provisions of section sixty-three hundred four of
9 this [chapter] article, as determined by the president of each such
10 institution, provided that such audit attendance does not deny course
11 attendance at a community college by an individual who is otherwise
12 qualified under the regulations and the provisions of section sixty-
13 three hundred four of this [chapter] article. The provisions of this
14 [paragraph] subdivision shall not affect any state aid to community
15 colleges granted pursuant to this article [one hundred twenty-six of
16 this chapter]. For the purposes of determining state aid to such insti-
17 tutions, such persons sixty years of age or over who audit classes shall
18 be included in the full time equivalent state aid formula.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
20 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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