STATE OF NEW YORK
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2387
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 17, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- 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 persons
over age sixty-five to enroll in a limited number of SUNY or CUNY
credit hours without tuition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section
2 355 of the education law, as separately amended by chapters 552 and 616
3 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
5 local law, rule or regulation, such regulations may permit persons sixty
6 years of age or over to audit courses given therein without tuition,
7 examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available basis, as
8 determined by the president of each such institution, provided that such
9 audit attendance does not deny course attendance at a state-operated
10 institution by an individual who is otherwise qualified under the regu-
11 lations promulgated pursuant to this section. For purposes of this
12 section, persons sixty-five years of age or over who are residents of
13 the state shall be eligible to take not more than nine credit hours of
14 courses for credit per semester without tuition.
15 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education
16 law, as added by chapter 344 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
17 follows:
18 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
19 local law, rule or regulation, the board of trustees may permit persons
20 sixty years of age or over to audit courses given therein without
21 tuition, examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available
22 basis, as determined by the president of each such institution, provided
23 that such audit attendance does not deny course attendance at the city
24 university of New York by an individual who is otherwise qualified under
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 this section. For purposes of this section, persons sixty-five years of
2 age or over who are residents of the state shall be eligible to take not
3 more than nine credit hours of courses for credit per semester without
4 tuition.
5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
6 the date on which it shall have become a law.
