Assembly Bill A3735

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Excludes certain graduate students from mandatory fees

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Current 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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2025-A3735 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§355 & 6206, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A6382
2023-2024: A6045

2025-A3735 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes certain graduate students from mandatory fees.

2025-A3735 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3735
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON, CLARK, SIMON, EACHUS -- Multi-Sponsored
   by -- M. of A.  LUPARDO, MITAYNES -- read once  and  referred  to  the
   Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to excluding certain
   graduate students from mandatory fees

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa-
 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 11 to read as follows:
   (11) ALL CURRENT AND FUTURE MANDATORY FEES OWED ON  OR  AFTER  JANUARY
 FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-SEVEN,  WITH THE EXCLUSION OF THE GRADUATE
 STUDENT ASSOCIATION STUDENT ACTIVITIES FEE, SHALL NOT BE  CHARGED  TO  A
 GRADUATE STUDENT SERVING A FULL-TIME OR HALF-TIME APPOINTMENT AS A GRAD-
 UATE  TEACHING  ASSISTANT, GRADUATE ASSISTANT, GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSIST-
 ANT, GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, OR A GRADUATE TEACHING ASSOCIATE.
   § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended  by
 adding a new subparagraph (g) to read as follows:
   (G)  ALL  CURRENT  AND  FUTURE MANDATORY FEES OWED ON OR AFTER JANUARY
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, WITH THE  EXCLUSION  OF  THE  GRADUATE
 STUDENT  ASSOCIATION  STUDENT  ACTIVITIES FEE, SHALL NOT BE CHARGED TO A
 GRADUATE STUDENT SERVING AS A GRADUATE  ASSISTANT,  ADJUNCT  INSTRUCTOR,
 ADJUNCT  LECTURER, ADJUNCT COLLEGE LABORATORY TECHNICIAN OR A NON-TEACH-
 ING ADJUNCT STAFF MEMBER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05897-01-5

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