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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4616
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 22, 2017
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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 eighteen--two thousand nineteen
4 academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty-two--two thousand
5 twenty-three academic year, the board of trustees of the state universi-
6 ty may designate the state university college of arts and sciences at
7 Potsdam for participation in a program allowing eligible non-resident
8 undergraduate students that reside within two hundred miles of the
9 institution to pay separate tuition rates for attendance at such insti-
10 tution. Such institution shall consider out-of-state competition,
11 current or projected levels of high school graduates within the insti-
12 tution's recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical
13 location of the institution, if such institution participates in the
14 program. The board of trustees of the state university is further
15 authorized to set such separate tuition rates, which shall not be set
16 below an amount equal to one and one-half times the in-state tuition
17 rate at the designated institution. Such separate tuition rates may be
18 offered only to eligible non-resident students, the total of which shall
19 not exceed ten percent of enrollment at the designated institution. The
20 institution shall report annually to the board of trustees of the state
21 university on the impact of this program.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall expire and be
23 deemed repealed June 1, 2023.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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