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Jan 13, 2015 |
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Assembly Bill A1815
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
WEPRIN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
multi-Sponsors
Michael Montesano
N. Nick Perry
Jose Rivera
2015-A1815 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S21
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Higher Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง359, Ed L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
A3162, S2731
2011-2012: A2138, S1943
2013-2014: A737, S1846
2017-2018: A4976, S2751
2019-2020: A3952
2015-A1815 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1815 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MONTESA- NO, PERRY, RIVERA, ROBERTS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to efforts to reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 359 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 6. THE TRUSTEES SHALL ESTABLISH A PROCESS TO ELIMINATE OR REDUCE DUPLICATION OF ACADEMIC DEGREE PROGRAMS. SUCH PROCESS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE PROMULGATION OF CRITERIA TO DETERMINE WHICH PROGRAMS SHALL BE CONSIDERED FOR ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION, RECOGNI- TION OF THE EFFECT OF ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION ON ACCESS TO SUCH DEGREE PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, CONSIDERATION OF THE FISCAL IMPLICATIONS OF ANY SUCH ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION, CONSIDERATION OF THE RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW OF MEMBERS OF CERTIFIED BARGAINING UNITS EMPLOYED BY THE STATE UNIVERSITY, AND A PROCESS BY WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE HELD BEFORE ELIM- INATION OR CONSOLIDATION OF ANY DEGREE PROGRAM. S 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00723-01-5
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