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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  phasing  out  certain
   mandatory university fees for graduate students
 
   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)  (I) BEGINNING IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX--TWO THOUSAND TWEN-
 TY-SEVEN ACADEMIC YEAR, ALL  CURRENT  AND  FUTURE  MANDATORY  UNIVERSITY
 FEES,  WITH  THE  EXCLUSION  OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION STUDENT
 ACTIVITY FEE, SHALL BE CHARGED TO A STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK  GRADU-
 ATE  STUDENT  SERVING A FULL-TIME OR HALF-TIME APPOINTMENT AS A GRADUATE
 TEACHING ASSISTANT, GRADUATE  ASSISTANT,  GRADUATE  RESEARCH  ASSISTANT,
 GRADUATE  RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, OR GRADUATE TEACHING ASSOCIATE AT THE RATE
 OF TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF ALL MANDATORY UNIVERSITY FEES, WITH THE EXCLU-
 SION OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE.
   (II) BEGINNING IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN--TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 EIGHT  ACADEMIC  YEAR AND THEREAFTER, NO MANDATORY UNIVERSITY FEES SHALL
 BE CHARGED, WITH THE  EXCLUSION  OF  THE  GRADUATE  STUDENT  ASSOCIATION
 STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE.
   §  2.  Section  6206  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 24 to read as follows:
   24. A. BEGINNING IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX--TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 SEVEN  ACADEMIC  YEAR, ALL CURRENT AND FUTURE MANDATORY UNIVERSITY FEES,
 WITH THE EXCLUSION OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION STUDENT  ACTIVITY
 FEE,  SHALL BE CHARGED TO A CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE STUDENT
 SERVING AS A GRADUATE ASSISTANT, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR,  ADJUNCT  LECTURER,
 ADJUNCT  COLLEGE  LABORATORY  TECHNICIAN OR A NON-TEACHING ADJUNCT STAFF
 MEMBER AT THE RATE OF TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF  ALL  MANDATORY  UNIVERSITY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 FEES,  WITH  THE  EXCLUSION  OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION STUDENT
 ACTIVITY FEE.
   B.  BEGINNING  IN  THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 EIGHT ACADEMIC YEAR AND THEREAFTER, NO MANDATORY UNIVERSITY  FEES  SHALL
 BE  CHARGED,  WITH  THE  EXCLUSION  OF  THE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
 STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.