Bill Text: NY S03982 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the establishment of an appeals process for students who are denied the state resident tuition rate at any public university or college.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S03982 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03982-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3982

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, BAILEY, JACKSON -- 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 establishing an
          appeals process for students denied the state resident tuition rate at
          a public college or university

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

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22.  The state university trustees shall require that each institution
     4  of the state university establish an appeals process  for  any  student,
     5  regardless of such student's immigration status, who has been denied the
     6  state  resident tuition rate for attending such institution. Each insti-
     7  tution shall establish a reasonable time period for  the  filing  of  an
     8  appeal  after a prospective student has received written notification of
     9  a denial of the state resident tuition rate and a reasonable time period
    10  for the institution to respond to such an  appeal.  Information  on  the
    11  right  to  such  appeal  and such appeals process shall be posted on the
    12  institution's website.
    13    § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    14  subdivision 24 to read as follows:
    15    24.  The  board of trustees shall require that each institution of the
    16  city university establish an appeals process for any student, regardless
    17  of such student's immigration status, who  has  been  denied  the  state
    18  resident  tuition  rate for attending such institution. Each institution
    19  shall establish a reasonable time period for the  filing  of  an  appeal
    20  after  a  prospective  student  has  received  written notification of a
    21  denial of the state resident tuition rate and a reasonable  time  period
    22  for  the  institution  to  respond to such an appeal. Information on the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  right to such appeal and such appeals process shall  be  posted  on  the
     2  institution's website.
     3    §  3.  Section  6306  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     5    12. The board of trustees of each community college shall establish an
     6  appeals process for any student,  regardless  of  such  student's  immi-
     7  gration  status, who has been denied the state resident tuition rate for
     8  attending such community college. The board of trustees of each communi-
     9  ty college shall establish a reasonable time period for the filing of an
    10  appeal after a prospective student has received written notification  of
    11  a denial of the state resident tuition rate and a reasonable time period
    12  for  the  community college to respond to such an appeal. Information on
    13  the right to such appeal and such appeals process shall be posted on the
    14  community college's website.
    15    § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.