Bill Text: NY A05037 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits community colleges from charging the county of residence of a non-resident student for local sponsor costs for more than the costs associated with obtaining an associate degree or certificate.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to higher education [A05037 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05037-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5037
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 10, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL, ABINANTI, JAFFEE, GALEF, COOK, PAULIN,
THIELE, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, PRETLOW,
RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing that a
community college may only charge the county of a non-resident student
for the local sponsor's costs for not more than two academic years
while such student is in attendance
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6305 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 646 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Any community college may, with the approval of the state universi-
5 ty trustees, charge non-resident students sufficient tuition and fees to
6 cover an allocable portion of the local sponsor's share of the operating
7 costs of such community college in addition to regular tuition and fees.
8 Such community college may elect to charge to and collect from each
9 county within the state which has issued a certificate or certificates
10 of residence pursuant to subdivision three of this section on the basis
11 of which such non-resident students are attending such community
12 college, an allocable portion of the local sponsor's share of the oper-
13 ating costs of such community college attributable to such non-resident
14 students, computed on a per student basis, together with a further sum
15 of not to exceed three hundred dollars each year to be determined and
16 approved by the state university trustees for each such non-resident
17 student on account of the local sponsor's share of the capital costs
18 incurred to provide facilities in which such non-resident students can
19 be accommodated; or, where such non-resident students come from communi-
20 ties which have elected to participate in and pay an appropriate share
21 of the expenses involved in the local sponsor's community college
22 program, such allocable portion of operating expenses and such further
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 sum not to exceed three hundred dollars per student for capital costs on
2 account of their residents attending such community college shall be
3 determined and approved by the state university trustees, and be charged
4 to and collected from such communities. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO
5 COMMUNITY COLLEGE MAY CHARGE OR COLLECT FROM ANY COUNTY, ISSUING A
6 CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE TO ANY NON-RESIDENT STUDENT, THE ALLOCABLE
7 PORTION OF THE LOCAL SPONSOR'S SHARE OF OPERATING COSTS AND CAPITAL COST
8 FOR SUCH STUDENT FOR MORE THAN THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH OBTAINING AN
9 ASSOCIATE DEGREE OR CERTIFICATE.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
