STATE OF NEW YORK
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3807
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 17, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- 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 authorizing persons
over age sixty-five to enroll in a limited number of SUNY credit hours
without tuition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section
2 355 of the education law, as separately amended by chapters 552 and 616
3 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
5 local law, rule or regulation, such regulations may permit persons sixty
6 years of age or over to audit courses given therein without tuition,
7 examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available basis, as
8 determined by the president of each such institution, provided that such
9 audit attendance does not deny course attendance at a state-operated
10 institution by an individual who is otherwise qualified under the regu-
11 lations promulgated pursuant to this section. For purposes of this
12 section, persons sixty-five years of age or over who are residents of
13 the state shall be eligible to take not more than nine credit hours of
14 courses for credit per semester without tuition.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
16 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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