Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain nonresident undergraduate students attending selected state-operated institutions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3949--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recom-
mitted 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 authorizing the board
of trustees of the state university of New York to offer certain non-
resident undergraduate students separate tuition rates for attendance
at selected state-operated institutions; and providing for the repeal
of such provisions upon the 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 is authorized to designate selected state-operated institutions of the
7 state university for participation in a program allowing eligible non-
8 resident undergraduate students that reside within two hundred miles of
9 a selected institution to pay separate tuition rates for attendance at
10 those selected institutions. In selecting institutions for this program,
11 such board of trustees shall consider out-of-state competition, current
12 or projected levels of high school graduates within an institution's
13 recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical location of
14 these institutions. The board of trustees of the state university is
15 further authorized to set such separate tuition rates, which shall not
16 be set below an amount equal to one and one-half times the in-state
17 tuition rate at the designated institution. Such separate tuition rates
18 may be offered only to eligible non-resident students, the total of
19 which shall not exceed ten percent of enrollment at each designated
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 institution. Each state-operated institution that is selected for
2 participation in this program shall report annually to the board of
3 trustees of the state 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.
