Assembly Bill A10643

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to create a competition among SUNY and CUNY schools with prizes going to the schools that produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emissions

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A10643 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education, Commissioner of
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A4134
2021-2022: A4427
2023-2024: A3042

2017-A10643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to create a competition among SUNY and CUNY schools with prizes going to the schools that produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emissions; the top three schools shall receive a cash prize which shall be used to improve environmental programs at the university.

2017-A10643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10643
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to require the commissioner of education to create  a  state-wide
   competition  among  SUNY  and  CUNY  schools  with prizes going to the
   schools that produce the most cost-efficient method  of  reducing  CO2
   emissions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The commissioner of education shall create  and  sponsor  a
 state-wide  competition  among  teams  of  students who attend the state
 university of New York or the city university of New  York  designed  to
 challenge  and  inspire the states' brightest and most inventive college
 students to produce the most cost-efficient method of reducing CO2 emis-
 sions. The awards for the teams competing in the competition:
   First Place: $100,000 to the winning university with an agreement that
 the award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
   Second Place: $50,000 for the university with an  agreement  that  the
 award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
   Third  Place:  $10,000  for  the university with an agreement that the
 award be used to improve environmental programs at the university.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13923-01-7



              

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