STATE OF NEW YORK
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7859
IN SENATE
May 18, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. VOLKER -- 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 renaming the Seek
Program as the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the
2 contrary, the Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge Program,
3 instituted by Percy Ellis Sutton in the City University of New York in
4 1966, is hereby renamed the Percy Ellis Sutton Search for Education,
5 Elevation and Knowledge Program.
6 § 2. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
7 667-a of the education law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of
8 1995, is amended to read as follows:
9 (i) The student shall not be enrolled in the higher education opportu-
10 nity program, educational opportunity program, the Percy Ellis Sutton
11 search for education, elevation and knowledge program or the college
12 discovery program.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
14 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.
LBD14715-02-9
