NY State Senate Bill 2017-S6510

Senate Bill S6510

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the transfer of certain funds from the licensed private career schools tuition reimbursement account to the proprietary vocational school supervision account

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2017-S6510 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7947
Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §5007, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S6592, A4042
2021-2022: S5104, A2470
2023-2024: S2165, A2235

2017-S6510 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that if the net balance of the reimbursement account exceeds two million five hundred thousand dollars, any amount over two million five hundred thousand dollars shall be transferred to the proprietary vocational school supervision account.

2017-S6510 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6510

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the transfer of
certain funds from the licensed private career schools tuition
reimbursement account to the proprietary vocational school supervision
account

 PURPOSE :

To allow the State Education Department to transfer funds from the
tuition reimbursement account to the proprietary vocational school
supervision account when the balance of the tuition reimbursement
account exceeds $2.5 million.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1. Adds a new paragraph i to subdivision 10 of section 5007 of
the education law to allow the State Education Department to transfer
funds from the tuition reimbursement account to the proprietary
vocational school supervision upon request by the Commissioner when
the balance of the tuition reimbursement account exceeds $2.5 million.

 JUSTIFICATION :

The State Education Department's (SED) Bureau of Proprietary School
Supervision (BPSS) is responsible for licensing and monitoring the
private "proprietary' schools in New York State to ensure that
students receive a quality education and to protect the students'
financial interests. BPSS is also in charge of investigating student
complaints and conducting comprehensive investigations of proprietary
schools to assure compliance with education law and SED regulations.

Unfortunately, BPSS has been faced with limited resources making it
difficult for the office to carry out its functions. Currently, there
are nearly 500 licensed proprietary schools in New York and that
number is growing each month. BPSS is facing extremely high caseloads
for educational technical assistance and backlogs in licensure
renewals and investigations of complaints. BPSS has no resources to
investigate unlicensed proprietary schools engaging in unlawful
activities.

This legislation would allow SED to transfer funds from the tuition
reimbursement account, which has funding above and beyond what is
needed to ensure student protection, to the proprietary school
supervision account. Transferring this funding to the proprietary
school supervision account would allow BPSS to work to reduce
educational technical assistance caseloads, reduce backlogs in
complaint investigations, improve licensure renewal and other vital
services, improve the quality of guidance provided to the public
regarding this sector of higher education and improve the fiscal
tracking of assessments, penalty payments and review of annual
financial statements. BPSS would also be able to establish a more
innovative method of curricular review and method of ensuring the
continued educational quality of proprietary schools. Enacting this
legislation would enhance BPSS's ability to fulfill its mission and
would provide tremendous benefit for the students attending
proprietary schools and the proprietary schools themselves.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None to the State.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately.

2017-S6510 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6510
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- 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  the  transfer  of
   certain  funds  from  the  licensed  private  career  schools  tuition
   reimbursement account to the proprietary vocational school supervision
   account
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  10  of  section 5007 of the education law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
   I. IN THE EVENT THAT THE NET  BALANCE  OF  THE  TUITION  REIMBURSEMENT
 ACCOUNT  IS  IN  EXCESS OF TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, AS
 DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION, ANY AMOUNT OVER TWO  MILLION
 FIVE  HUNDRED  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  SHALL  BE  TRANSFERRED DIRECTLY TO THE
 PROPRIETARY VOCATIONAL SCHOOL SUPERVISION ACCOUNT UPON  REQUEST  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11773-02-7

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