NY State Senate Bill 2019-S3549A

Senate Bill S3549A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to state appropriations to the state university of New York and the city university of New York

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2019-S3549 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1183
Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§355 & 6206, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S7648, A10021
2017-2018: S1596, S7259, A934, A10620
2021-2022: S4219, A5473

2019-S3549 - Summary

Clarifies that the SUNY health science centers are included in the maintenance of effort provision pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws of 2011.

2019-S3549 - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3549

SPONSOR: STAVISKY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to state appropriations
to the state university of New York and the city university of New York

 
PURPOSE:

To include SUNY's health care science centers in the SUNY maintenance of
effort provision.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Amends section 355 and section 6206 of the education law by adding SUNY
health science centers to clarify that these facilities are included in
SUNY's maintenance of effort provision. This legislation also adds
building rentals and fringe benefits to items that should be included in
the Maintenance of Effort provision for the SUNY and CUNY systems. This
bill will make the MOE permanent going forward, starting in state fiscal

year 2020-2021. This also would include the TAP credit, pursuant to
Education Law section 689-a, in mandatory costs that should be covered
under the maintenance of effort provision.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

State support for SUNY's health science centers as created more than 20
years ago to recognize that the State has a responsibility to at least
partially compensate these hospitals for their service to indigent popu-
lations and for their role in providing unique life-saving services not
generally offered by private hospitals.  These include burn units serv-
ing as the poison control centers and the major trauma centers for their
regions and other vital services.  Moreover, they fulfill an important
academic mission in producing many of the State's physicians and other
medical professionals.

While SUNY's hospital are a major part of the State University and play
a critical role in providing essential health care service to the State
and communities they serve, the State has consistently reduced funding
to these institutions over the last decade. In 2010, State support was
reduced by almost 47 percent. These cuts have placed these institutions
in serious financial jeopardy and have threatened their ability to carry
out their health care service and academic missions. The enactment of
this legislation is necessary to clarify that the Legislature intended
for the health science centers to be part of the State's maintenance of
effort (MOE) provision pursuant to the NY SUNY 2020 legislation enacted
in 2011, so that at a minimum, they will receive prior year levels of
funding from the State. While this legislation will not solve the finan-
cial problems of these institutions, it is desperately needed to help
stop the bleeding of state disinvestment to these critical state facili-
ties.

This bill also clarified what is to be included in the MOE besides the
SUNY hospitals. It shall include collective bargaining costs including
salary increments, fringe benefits and other non-personal services costs
such as utility costs and other inflationary expenses incurred by the
State University and the City University.

When the Governor vetoed this bill in 2015, he stated that he wanted to
discuss maintenance of effort in the context of the budget. In the
2016-17 enacted budget, maintenance of effort was allowed to expire at
the end of the 2016-17 fiscal year. In 2017-2018 budget, the basic main-
tenance of effort provisions were restored. The Legislature passed these
more robust MOE measures in 2017 through both houses and this legis-
lation was vetoed for a second time, and again in 2018. The need for a
comprehensive, robust maintenance of effort is vital and considering the
cuts that will occur to both SUNY and CUNY, the State must provide its
share of support and show its commitment to New York State Higher Educa-
tion Systems.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2018 S.7259A (Veto 356)
2017 S.1596A (Veto 204)

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately provide that:
(a) the amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of
section 355 of the education law made by section one of this act shall
not the expiration and reversion of such subparagraph pursuant to chap-
ter 260 of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith; and
(b) the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of
the education law made by section two of this act shall not affect the
expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to chapter 260 of
the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith.

2019-S3549 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3549
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, 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 state appropriations
   to the state university of New York and the  city  university  of  New
   York

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Clauses (v) and (vi) of subparagraph 4 of  paragraph  h  of
 subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law, as amended by section
 1  of part JJJ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, are amended to read as
 follows:
   (v) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand  seventeen--two  thou-
 sand  eighteen  and  ending  in  state fiscal year two thousand [twenty]
 NINETEEN--two thousand [twenty-one] TWENTY, the state shall  appropriate
 and  make  available  general  fund  operating support, including fringe
 benefits, for the state university in an amount not less than the amount
 appropriated  and  made  available  in  the  prior  state  fiscal  year;
 provided, however, that if the governor declares a fiscal emergency, and
 communicates such emergency to the temporary president of the senate and
 speaker  of  the  assembly,  state support for operating expenses at the
 state university and city university may be reduced in a manner  propor-
 tionate  to  one  another,  and  the aforementioned provisions shall not
 apply; provided further, the state shall appropriate and make  available
 general fund support to fully fund the tuition credit pursuant to subdi-
 vision two of section six hundred sixty-nine-h of this title.
   (vi)  BEGINNING IN STATE FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY--TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-ONE AND THEREAFTER, THE STATE SHALL APPROPRIATE AND  MAKE  AVAIL-
 ABLE  GENERAL  FUND OPERATING SUPPORT AND FRINGE BENEFITS, FOR THE STATE
 UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERS IN AN  AMOUNT
 NOT  LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS SEPARATELY APPROPRIATED AND MADE AVAILABLE IN
 THE PRIOR STATE FISCAL YEAR; PROVIDED, FURTHER, THE STATE  SHALL  APPRO-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD05691-01-9

 S. 3549                             2
 
 PRIATE  AND  MAKE  AVAILABLE GENERAL FUND OPERATING SUPPORT TO COVER ALL
 MANDATORY COSTS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE UNIVERSITY  HEALTH
 SCIENCE  CENTERS, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, COLLECTIVE
 BARGAINING COSTS INCLUDING SALARY INCREMENTS, FRINGE BENEFITS, AND OTHER
 NON-PERSONAL  SERVICE  COSTS SUCH AS UTILITY COSTS, BUILDING RENTALS AND
 OTHER INFLATIONARY EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY  AND  THE
 STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERS, AND ANY INCREASE IN THE TUITION
 CREDIT  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE-A OF THIS TITLE AS
 TUITION INCREASES ARE ENACTED BY THE BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  OF  THE  STATE
 UNIVERSITY;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT IF THE GOVERNOR DECLARES A FISCAL
 EMERGENCY, AND COMMUNICATES SUCH EMERGENCY TO THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF
 THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, STATE SUPPORT FOR  OPERATING
 EXPENSES AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND CITY UNIVERSITY MAY BE REDUCED IN A
 MANNER  PROPORTIONATE  TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE AFOREMENTIONED PROVISIONS
 SHALL NOT APPLY; PROVIDED FURTHER, THE STATE SHALL APPROPRIATE AND  MAKE
 AVAILABLE GENERAL FUND SUPPORT TO FULLY FUND THE TUITION CREDIT PURSUANT
 TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE-H OF THIS TITLE.
   (VII)  For  the  state university fiscal years commencing two thousand
 eleven--two thousand twelve and ending two thousand  fifteen--two  thou-
 sand  sixteen,  each  university  center  may set aside a portion of its
 tuition revenues derived from tuition  increases  to  provide  increased
 financial  aid  for New York state resident undergraduate students whose
 net taxable income is eighty thousand dollars or  more  subject  to  the
 approval  of  a NY-SUNY 2020 proposal by the governor and the chancellor
 of the state university of New York. Nothing in this paragraph shall  be
 construed  as  to  authorize  that  students whose net taxable income is
 eighty thousand dollars or more  are  eligible  for  tuition  assistance
 program  awards  pursuant  to  section  six  hundred sixty-seven of this
 [chapter] TITLE.
   § 2. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  7  of  section
 6206  of the education law, as amended by section 2 of part JJJ of chap-
 ter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended and a new  subparagraph  (vi)  is
 added to read as follows:
   (v)  Beginning  in state fiscal year two thousand seventeen--two thou-
 sand eighteen and ending in state  fiscal  year  two  thousand  [twenty]
 NINETEEN--two  thousand [twenty-one] TWENTY, the state shall appropriate
 and make available general  fund  operating  support,  including  fringe
 benefits,  for the city university in an amount not less than the amount
 appropriated  and  made  available  in  the  prior  state  fiscal  year;
 provided, however, that if the governor declares a fiscal emergency, and
 communicates such emergency to the temporary president of the senate and
 speaker  of  the  assembly,  state support for operating expenses at the
 state university and city university may be reduced in a manner  propor-
 tionate  to  one  another,  and  the aforementioned provisions shall not
 apply; provided further, the state shall appropriate and make  available
 general fund support to fully fund the tuition credit pursuant to subdi-
 vision two of section six hundred sixty-nine-h of this chapter.
   (VI)  BEGINNING IN STATE FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY--TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-ONE AND THEREAFTER, THE STATE SHALL APPROPRIATE AND  MAKE  AVAIL-
 ABLE  GENERAL  FUND  OPERATING SUPPORT AND FRINGE BENEFITS, FOR THE CITY
 UNIVERSITY IN AN AMOUNT NOT LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS  SEPARATELY  APPROPRI-
 ATED  AND  MADE  AVAILABLE  IN  THE  PRIOR  STATE FISCAL YEAR; PROVIDED,
 FURTHER, THE STATE SHALL APPROPRIATE AND  MAKE  AVAILABLE  GENERAL  FUND
 OPERATING  SUPPORT  TO COVER ALL MANDATORY COSTS OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY,
 WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING  COSTS
 INCLUDING  SALARY  INCREMENTS,  FRINGE  BENEFITS, AND OTHER NON-PERSONAL

 S. 3549                             3
 
 SERVICE COSTS SUCH AS UTILITY COSTS, BUILDING RENTALS AND  OTHER  INFLA-
 TIONARY  EXPENSES  INCURRED  BY THE CITY UNIVERSITY, AND ANY INCREASE IN
 THE TUITION CREDIT PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE-A OF THIS
 CHAPTER AS TUITION INCREASES ARE ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
 STATE  UNIVERSITY;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT IF THE GOVERNOR DECLARES A
 FISCAL EMERGENCY, AND COMMUNICATES SUCH EMERGENCY TO THE TEMPORARY PRES-
 IDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, STATE  SUPPORT  FOR
 OPERATING  EXPENSES  AT  THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND CITY UNIVERSITY MAY BE
 REDUCED IN A MANNER PROPORTIONATE TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE AFOREMENTIONED
 PROVISIONS SHALL NOT APPLY; PROVIDED FURTHER, THE STATE SHALL  APPROPRI-
 ATE  AND  MAKE  AVAILABLE GENERAL FUND SUPPORT TO FULLY FUND THE TUITION
 CREDIT PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIX  HUNDRED  SIXTY-NINE-H
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately provided that:
   (a)  the  amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2
 of section 355 of the education law made by  section  one  of  this  act
 shall  not  affect  the  expiration  and  reversion of such subparagraph
 pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws  of  2011,  as  amended,  and  shall
 expire therewith; and
   (b)  the  amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206
 of the education law made by section two of this act  shall  not  affect
 the  expiration  and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to chapter 260
 of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith.

co-Sponsors

2019-S3549A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1183
Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§355 & 6206, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S7648, A10021
2017-2018: S1596, S7259, A934, A10620
2021-2022: S4219, A5473

2019-S3549A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies that the SUNY health science centers are included in the maintenance of effort provision pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws of 2011.

2019-S3549A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3549A

SPONSOR: STAVISKY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to state appropriations
to the state university of New York and the city university of New York

 
PURPOSE:

To include SUNY's health care science centers in the SUNY maintenance of
effort provision.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Amends section 355 and section 6206 of the education law by adding SUNY
health science centers to clarify that these facilities are included in
SUNY's maintenance of effort provision. This legislation also adds
building rentals and fringe benefits to items that should be included in
the Maintenance of Effort provision for the SUNY and CUNY systems. This
bill will make the MOE permanent going forward, starting in state fiscal

year 2021-2022. This also would include the TAP credit, pursuant to
Education Law section 689-a, in mandatory costs that should be covered
under the maintenance of effort provision.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

State support for SUNY's health science centers as created more than 20
years ago to recognize that the State has a responsibility to at least
partially compensate these hospitals for their service to indigent popu-
lations and for their role in providing unique life-saving services not
generally offered by private hospitals.  These include burn units, serv-
ing as the poison control centers and the major trauma centers for their
regions, and other vital services.  Moreover, they fulfill an important
academic mission in producing many of the State's physicians and other
medical professionals.

While SUNY's hospitals are a major part of the State University and play
a critical role in providing essential health care service to the State
and communities they serve, the State has consistently reduced funding
to these institutions over the last decade. In 2010, State support was
reduced by almost 47 percent. These cuts have placed these institutions
in serious financial jeopardy and have threatened their ability to carry
out their health care service and academic missions. The enactment of
this legislation is necessary to clarify that the Legislature intended
for the health science centers to be part of the State's maintenance of
effort (MOE) provision pursuant to the NY SUNY 2020 legislation enacted
in 2011, so that at a minimum, they will receive prior year levels of
funding from the State. While this legislation will not solve the finan-
cial problems of these institutions, it is desperately needed to help
stop the bleeding of state disinvestment to these critical state facili-
ties.

This bill also clarified what is to be included in the MOE besides the
SUNY hospitals. It shall include collective bargaining costs including
salary increments, fringe benefits and other non-personal services costs
such as utility costs and other inflationary expenses incurred by the
State University and the City University.

When the Governor vetoed this bill in 2015, he stated that he wanted to
discuss maintenance of effort in the context of the budget. In the
2016-17 enacted budget, maintenance of effort was allowed to expire at
the end of the 2016-17 fiscal year. In 2017-2018 budget, the basic main-
tenance of effort provisions were restored. The Legislature passed these
more robust MOE measures in 2017 through both houses and this legis-
lation was vetoed for a second time. The need for a comprehensive,
robust maintenance of effort is vital and considering the cuts that will
occur to both SUNY and CUNY, the State must provide its share of support
and show its commitment to New York State Higher Education Systems.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019: A.1183
2018 S.7259A/A.10620 (Veto 356)
2017 S.1596A (Veto 204) 2016 S.7648/A.10021.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately provide that:
(a) the amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of
section 355 of the education law made by section one of this act shall
not the expiration and reversion of such subparagraph pursuant to chap-
ter 260 of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith; and
(b) the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of
the education law made by section two of this act shall not affect the
expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to chapter 260 of
the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith.

2019-S3549A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3549--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. STAVISKY, LAVALLE, ADDABBO, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY --
   read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
   the  Committee  on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Higher Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  state  appropriations
   to  the  state  university  of New York and the city university of New
   York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Clause (vi) of subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision
 2  of  section 355 of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part
 JJJ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (vi) BEGINNING IN STATE FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE--TWO THOU-
 SAND TWENTY-TWO AND THEREAFTER, THE STATE  SHALL  APPROPRIATE  AND  MAKE
 AVAILABLE  GENERAL  FUND  OPERATING SUPPORT AND FRINGE BENEFITS, FOR THE
 STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERS  IN  AN
 AMOUNT NOT LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS SEPARATELY APPROPRIATED AND MADE AVAIL-
 ABLE  IN THE PRIOR STATE FISCAL YEAR; PROVIDED, FURTHER, THE STATE SHALL
 APPROPRIATE AND MAKE AVAILABLE GENERAL FUND OPERATING SUPPORT  TO  COVER
 ALL  MANDATORY  COSTS  OF  THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE UNIVERSITY
 HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERS, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,
 COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING  COSTS  INCLUDING SALARY INCREMENTS, FRINGE BENE-
 FITS, AND OTHER NON-PERSONAL SERVICE COSTS SUCH AS UTILITY COSTS, BUILD-
 ING RENTALS AND  OTHER  INFLATIONARY  EXPENSES  INCURRED  BY  THE  STATE
 UNIVERSITY  AND  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY  HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERS, AND ANY
 INCREASE IN THE TUITION CREDIT PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX  HUNDRED  EIGHTY-
 NINE-A  OF  THIS  TITLE AS TUITION INCREASES ARE ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF
 TRUSTEES OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF THE  GOVER-
 NOR  DECLARES A FISCAL EMERGENCY, AND COMMUNICATES SUCH EMERGENCY TO THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD05691-03-0

 S. 3549--A                          2
 
 TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, STATE
 SUPPORT FOR OPERATING EXPENSES AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND CITY  UNIVER-
 SITY  MAY  BE  REDUCED IN A MANNER PROPORTIONATE TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE
 AFOREMENTIONED  PROVISIONS  SHALL NOT APPLY; PROVIDED FURTHER, THE STATE
 SHALL APPROPRIATE AND MAKE AVAILABLE GENERAL FUND SUPPORT TO FULLY  FUND
 THE  TUITION  CREDIT  PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED
 SIXTY-NINE-H OF THIS TITLE.
   (VII) For the state university fiscal years  commencing  two  thousand
 eleven--two  thousand  twelve and ending two thousand fifteen--two thou-
 sand sixteen, each university center may set  aside  a  portion  of  its
 tuition  revenues  derived  from  tuition increases to provide increased
 financial aid for New York state resident undergraduate  students  whose
 net  taxable  income  is  eighty thousand dollars or more subject to the
 approval of a NY-SUNY 2020 proposal by the governor and  the  chancellor
 of  the state university of New York. Nothing in this paragraph shall be
 construed as to authorize that students  whose  net  taxable  income  is
 eighty  thousand  dollars  or  more  are eligible for tuition assistance
 program awards pursuant to  section  six  hundred  sixty-seven  of  this
 [chapter] TITLE.
   §  2.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
   (VI) BEGINNING IN STATE FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE--TWO THOU-
 SAND TWENTY-TWO AND THEREAFTER, THE STATE  SHALL  APPROPRIATE  AND  MAKE
 AVAILABLE  GENERAL  FUND  OPERATING SUPPORT AND FRINGE BENEFITS, FOR THE
 CITY UNIVERSITY IN AN AMOUNT NOT LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS SEPARATELY APPRO-
 PRIATED AND MADE AVAILABLE IN THE PRIOR  STATE  FISCAL  YEAR;  PROVIDED,
 FURTHER,  THE  STATE  SHALL  APPROPRIATE AND MAKE AVAILABLE GENERAL FUND
 OPERATING SUPPORT TO COVER ALL MANDATORY COSTS OF THE  CITY  UNIVERSITY,
 WHICH  SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COSTS
 INCLUDING SALARY INCREMENTS, FRINGE  BENEFITS,  AND  OTHER  NON-PERSONAL
 SERVICE  COSTS  SUCH AS UTILITY COSTS, BUILDING RENTALS AND OTHER INFLA-
 TIONARY EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE CITY UNIVERSITY, AND  ANY  INCREASE  IN
 THE TUITION CREDIT PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE-A OF THIS
 CHAPTER AS TUITION INCREASES ARE ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
 STATE  UNIVERSITY;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT IF THE GOVERNOR DECLARES A
 FISCAL EMERGENCY, AND COMMUNICATES SUCH EMERGENCY TO THE TEMPORARY PRES-
 IDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, STATE  SUPPORT  FOR
 OPERATING  EXPENSES  AT  THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND CITY UNIVERSITY MAY BE
 REDUCED IN A MANNER PROPORTIONATE TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE AFOREMENTIONED
 PROVISIONS SHALL NOT APPLY; PROVIDED FURTHER, THE STATE SHALL  APPROPRI-
 ATE  AND  MAKE  AVAILABLE GENERAL FUND SUPPORT TO FULLY FUND THE TUITION
 CREDIT PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIX  HUNDRED  SIXTY-NINE-H
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately provided that:
   (a)  the  amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2
 of section 355 of the education law made by  section  one  of  this  act
 shall  not  affect  the  expiration  and  reversion of such subparagraph
 pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws  of  2011,  as  amended,  and  shall
 expire therewith; and
   (b)  the  amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206
 of the education law made by section two of this act  shall  not  affect
 the  expiration  and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to chapter 260
 of the laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire therewith.

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