STATE OF NEW YORK
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4577--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 17, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, JACOBS, KENNEDY, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, YOUNG
-- 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 commit-
tee -- 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 committee
AN ACT authorizing colleges and universities to offer additional
programs and degrees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special
2 law to the contrary, a college, as defined by section 2 of the education
3 law may offer or institute an additional program or degree if that
4 college (1) has maintained a physical presence and operated continuously
5 in the state for the immediately preceding 10 years and (2) is accred-
6 ited without sanction by Middle States Commission on Higher Education or
7 the New York state board of regents. Any such college that does not
8 satisfy all of the provisions of this section shall comply with the
9 procedures and criteria established by the board of regents.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect the first of January next succeeding
11 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.
LBD10020-04-8
