Assembly Bill A5799

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to eligibility of community colleges for state aid

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2021-A5799 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §358, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A6399
2019-2020: A3054
2023-2024: A749

2021-A5799 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that community colleges provide educational opportunity programs to eligible students in order to qualify for state aid for capital and operating expenditures.

2021-A5799 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5799
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 25, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. JOYNER, LAVINE -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state aid for  certain
   community colleges
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 358 of  the  educa-
 tion  law,  as  amended by chapter 698 of the laws of 1948 and as relet-
 tered by chapter 782 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read as follows:
   b. Community colleges, PROVIDED THAT SUCH COMMUNITY  COLLEGE  PROVIDES
 AN  EDUCATIONAL  OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM, AS PRESCRIBED BY SECTION SIX THOU-
 SAND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03907-01-1

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