Senate Bill S1520

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Creates a commission to evaluate the need for community colleges to participate in the educational opportunity program

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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-S1520 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S3485
2019-2020: S6788
2023-2024: S937

2021-S1520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a commission to evaluate the need for community colleges to participate in the educational opportunity program.

2021-S1520 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1520
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT relating to creating the commission on affordable college  educa-
   tion  to  study  the participation of community colleges in the educa-
   tional opportunity program; and  providing  for  the  repeal  of  such
   provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature  hereby  acknowledges
 the  need for a college education to compete in today's market. Further-
 more, residents throughout New York state are in need of more affordable
 higher education options. Currently, ten out of the thirty SUNY communi-
 ty colleges do not participate in the Educational  Opportunity  Programs
 (EOP),  which provide vital financial and academic support for thousands
 of academic and economically disadvantaged New  Yorkers  throughout  the
 state.  Subsequently, community college students from those ten two-year
 colleges, who seek to transfer into a four-year school as Higher  Educa-
 tion  Opportunity  Program  (HEOP)  or  EOP  applicants risk potentially
 disqualifying  themselves  for  such  financial  and  academic   support
 programs.
   §  2.  A temporary state commission, to be known as the "commission on
 affordable college education", is hereby established to examine,  evalu-
 ate and make recommendations concerning the need for the ten SUNY commu-
 nity  colleges  to participate in EOP. The commission shall consider the
 need for additional legislation to amend  current  eligibility  criteria
 for transfer students.
   § 3. The commission shall consist of thirteen members, to be appointed
 as follows: three members to be appointed by the governor; three members
 to  be appointed by the temporary president of the senate; three members
 to be appointed by the speaker  of  the  assembly;  two  members  to  be
 appointed  by  the  minority leader of the senate; and two members to be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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