Bill Text: NY A06599 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires regulations to permit tuition waivers for two courses for firefighter students in baccalaureate/higher degree CUNY programs.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-13 - print number 6599a [A06599 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06599-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6599--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 12, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. NOLAN --
         read  once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recom-
         mitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with  Assem-
         bly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to certain tuition  waiv-
         ers  for firefighters and fire officer students of the city university
         of New York; and providing for the  repeal  of  such  provisions  upon
         expiration thereof
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subdivision 7 of section 6206  of  the  education  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
    3    (D)  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS OF ANY OTHER GENERAL, SPECIAL OR
    4  LOCAL LAW, RULE OR REGULATION, THE BOARD OF  TRUSTEES  SHALL  PROMULGATE
    5  REGULATIONS TO PERMIT FIREFIGHTERS AND FIRE OFFICERS EMPLOYED BY THE NEW
    6  YORK  CITY  FIRE  DEPARTMENT,  WHO  ARE  ENROLLED IN PROGRAMS LEADING TO
    7  BACCALAUREATE OR HIGHER DEGREES AT A SENIOR COLLEGE OF THE CITY  UNIVER-
    8  SITY  TO  ATTEND TWO COURSES WITHOUT TUITION, PROVIDED THAT SUCH COURSES
    9  ARE RELATED TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT AS FIREFIGHTERS AND  FIRE  OFFICERS  AND
   10  THAT SUCH TUITION-WAIVED ATTENDANCE DOES NOT DENY COURSE ATTENDANCE AT A
   11  SENIOR  COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY BY AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS OTHERWISE
   12  QUALIFIED UNDER THIS SECTION.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
   14  deemed repealed July 1, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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