STATE OF NEW YORK
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5797
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 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 twenty--two thousand twenty-one
4 academic year and ending in the two thousand twenty-four--two thousand
5 twenty-five 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 to pay separate tuition rates for
9 attendance at those selected institutions. In selecting institutions for
10 this program, such board of trustees shall consider out-of-state compe-
11 tition, current or projected levels of high school graduates within an
12 institution's recruitment region, and enrollment capacity and physical
13 location of these institutions. The board of trustees of the state
14 university is further authorized to set such separate tuition rates,
15 which shall not be set below an amount equal to one and one-half times
16 the in-state tuition rate at the designated institution. Such separate
17 tuition rates may be offered only to eligible non-resident students, the
18 total of which shall not exceed ten percent of enrollment at each desig-
19 nated institution. Residents from the states of Connecticut, Massachu-
20 setts, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vermont, and the Canadian
21 provinces of Ontario and Quebec may be eligible for separate tuition
22 rates at the designated state-operated institutions. Each state-operated
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 institution that is selected for participation in this program shall
2 report annually to the board of trustees of the state university on the
3 impact of this program.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
5 deemed repealed August 31, 2025.
