STATE OF NEW YORK
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3916--C
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, ADDABBO, GALLIVAN, GAUGHRAN, KAPLAN,
KENNEDY, MONTGOMERY, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said commit-
tee, ordered to first report, amended on first report, ordered to a
second report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order
of second report -- 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 commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing a program
fee option for graduate students
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 11 to read as follows:
3 (11) The trustees shall also establish an access fee option that would
4 allow a student who is a candidate for a graduate or professional degree
5 and has completed at least thirty credits, and is on leave from full-
6 time study, to maintain access to certain facilities within the state
7 university such as libraries, computers and/or student centers in order
8 to continue a research project or to pursue other academic requirements
9 established by the state university, without being enrolled in regular
10 credit courses. Such fee shall not exceed the cost of one credit of the
11 student's program of graduate or doctorate course work as established by
12 the trustees of the state university. All current and future mandatory
13 university fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association
14 student activity fee, shall not be charged to a graduate student serving
15 a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate teaching assistant,
16 graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate research asso-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10054-06-9
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1 ciate, or graduate teaching associate. All current and future mandatory
2 university fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association
3 student activity fee, shall not be charged to a SUNY graduate student
4 serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate teaching
5 assistant, graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate
6 research associate, or graduate teaching associate, or to a CUNY gradu-
7 ate student serving as a graduate assistant, adjunct instructor, adjunct
8 lecturer, adjunct college laboratory technician or a non-teaching
9 adjunct staff member.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
