Bill Text: NY S05436 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a student activity fee to fund the student assembly of the state university of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S05436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05436-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5436

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. 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 a student
          activity fee to fund the student assembly of the state  university  of
          New York

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  355-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  355-e. Student activity fee. 1. There shall be assessed a fee of no
     4  less than one dollar per semester to each enrolled student at a  college
     5  or institution of the state university.
     6    2.  Such  fee  shall be wholly the property of the student assembly of
     7  the state university. No institution or persons other than  the  student
     8  assembly  of the state university shall be entitled to any apportionment
     9  of such student activity fee, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision
    10  of any rule or law.
    11    3. The revenue  generated  by  such  student  activity  fee  shall  be
    12  utilized  at  the  sole  discretion of the student assembly of the state
    13  university.
    14    4. The student activity fee shall be assessed and collected concurrent
    15  with the standard bill schedule of a college or institution.  Each  such
    16  college  or  institution  shall deliver the collected fee to the student
    17  assembly of the state university within thirty days of such collection.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09746-02-1