Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain non-resident undergraduate students attending the state university college of arts and sciences at Potsdam.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2908
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing eligible
non-resident undergraduate students to pay separate tuition rates for
attendance at the state university college of arts and sciences at
Potsdam; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
tion 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 twenty--two thousand twenty-one
4 academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty-four--two thousand
5 twenty-five academic year, the board of trustees of the state university
6 may designate the state university college of arts and sciences at Pots-
7 dam for participation in a program allowing eligible non-resident under-
8 graduate students that reside within two hundred miles of the institu-
9 tion to pay separate tuition rates for attendance at such institution.
10 Such institution shall consider out-of-state competition, current or
11 projected levels of high school graduates within the institution's
12 recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical location of the
13 institution, if such institution participates in the program. The board
14 of trustees of the state university is further authorized to set such
15 separate tuition rates, which shall not be set below an amount equal to
16 one and one-half times the in-state tuition rate at the designated
17 institution. Such separate tuition rates may be offered only to eligible
18 non-resident students, the total of which shall not exceed ten percent
19 of enrollment at the designated institution. The institution shall
20 report annually to the board of trustees of the state university on the
21 impact of this program.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be
23 deemed repealed June 1, 2025.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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