Assembly Bill A6037

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes the college of renewable energy and sustainability in the city university of New York

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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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2021-A6037 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3176
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6099
2023-2024: S2004

2021-A6037 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the college of renewable energy and sustainability in the city university of New York.

2021-A6037 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6037
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to establish the college of renewable energy and sustainability
   in 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.  (a)  The  trustees of the city university of New York are
 hereby authorized and directed  to  immediately  take  all  actions,  in
 conjunction  with  the chancellor of the city university of New York, to
 create and establish within the city university of New York system,  and
 subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of  such board of trustees, a college of
 renewable energy and sustainability to be located near the JFK  Interna-
 tional Airport in Jamaica, borough of Queens.
   (b)  Such  board of trustees shall select the location of such college
 within Jamaica and provide for such college to be an accessible, afford-
 able, competitive, four-year, bachelor's level, degree-granting  college
 of the city university.
   (c) The purpose of this college of renewable energy and sustainability
 shall  be  to  offer  majors  to be determined by such board of trustees
 relating to the field of renewable energy and sustainability.
   (d) Such board of trustees shall establish  standards  and  promulgate
 any  necessary  rules  and  regulations  for  the  establishment of such
 college pursuant to article one hundred  twenty-five  of  the  education
 law.
   §  2.  The chancellor of the city university of New York shall set the
 curriculum and the academic policies for such college  as  described  in
 section one of this act.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05625-01-1

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