Bill Text: NY A06064 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes colleges to offer additional programs or degrees if they have met certain criteria.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - print number 6064b [A06064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06064-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6064--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 23, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SCHIMMINGER, PEOPLES-STOKES, COOK, McDONALD --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO, HIKIND, MAGEE,  PERRY,  RIVERA,
          THIELE,  WALTER  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Higher
          Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted to the
          Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
          2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  authorizing  colleges  and  universities  to  offer  additional
          programs and degrees
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of any general or special
     2  law to the contrary, a college, as defined by section 2 of the education
     3  law may offer or institute an  additional  program  or  degree  if  that
     4  college (1) has maintained a physical presence and operated continuously
     5  in  the  state for the immediately preceding 10 years and (2) is accred-
     6  ited without sanction by Middle States Commission on Higher Education or
     7  the New York state board of regents.   Any such college  that  does  not
     8  satisfy  all  of  the  provisions  of this section shall comply with the
     9  procedures and criteria established by the board of regents.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect the first of January  next  succeeding
    11  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.
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