Bill Text: NY S04551 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and/or regulations to require SUNY's office of higher education to develop and implement a plan with the goal of operating a degree-granting program in every correctional facility in the state, and enrolling at least 2,000 students in such programs, by January 1, 2029.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S04551 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S04551-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4551 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. FAHY, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to degree-granting programs offered by SUNY's office of higher education in prison The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 63 to read as follows: 3 63. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and/or regulations neces- 4 sary to direct the university of the state of New York's office of high- 5 er education in prison to develop and implement a plan with the goal of 6 operating a degree-granting program in every correctional facility, as 7 defined by section two of the correction law, located in the state, and 8 enrolling at least two thousand students in such programs, by January 9 first, two thousand twenty-nine. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08552-02-5
