Bill Text: NY A06905 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a program fee option for graduate students.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 39-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-15 - enacting clause stricken [A06905 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06905-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6905

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 13, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PICHARDO, GRIFFIN, FRONTUS, REYES, DINOWITZ,
          WILLIAMS, DICKENS, SIMON, CARROLL,  SAYEGH,  CRUZ,  QUART,  SEAWRIGHT,
          JEAN-PIERRE, L. ROSENTHAL, EPSTEIN, STIRPE, TAYLOR, ENGLEBRIGHT, McMA-
          HON,  GOTTFRIED,  SMITH,  STECK,  PHEFFER AMATO,  HYNDMAN,  FERNANDEZ,
          ABINANTI, STERN, BENEDETTO,  PAULIN,  JACOBSON,  BARNWELL,  MONTESANO,
          DeSTEFANO, NORRIS, FAHY, NIOU, LAVINE, J. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.  BLANKENBUSH, COOK, DE LA ROSA, NOLAN, THIELE -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to providing a program
          fee option for graduate students

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa-
     2  tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 11 to read as follows:
     3    (11) The trustees shall also establish an access fee option that would
     4  allow a student who is a candidate for a graduate or professional degree
     5  and has completed at least thirty credits, and is on  leave  from  full-
     6  time  study,  to  maintain access to certain facilities within the state
     7  university such as libraries, computers and/or student centers in  order
     8  to  continue a research project or to pursue other academic requirements
     9  established by the state university, without being enrolled  in  regular
    10  credit  courses. Such fee shall not exceed the cost of one credit of the
    11  student's program of graduate or doctorate course work as established by
    12  the trustees of the state university.  All current and future  mandatory
    13  university  fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association
    14  student activity fee, shall not be charged to a graduate student serving
    15  a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate  teaching  assistant,
    16  graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, graduate research asso-
    17  ciate,  or graduate teaching associate. All current and future mandatory
    18  university fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student  association
    19  student  activity  fee,  shall not be charged to a SUNY graduate student

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07601-01-1
        A. 6905                             2

     1  serving a full-time or half-time  appointment  as  a  graduate  teaching
     2  assistant,  graduate  assistant,  graduate  research assistant, graduate
     3  research associate, or graduate teaching associate, or to a CUNY  gradu-
     4  ate student serving as a graduate assistant, adjunct instructor, adjunct
     5  lecturer,  adjunct  college  laboratory  technician  or  a  non-teaching
     6  adjunct staff member.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.