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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 14, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. ADAMS, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education --
  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
  recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to the capital costs of
  Medgar Evers college; and to repeal paragraph (ii) of subdivision E of
  section 6221 of such law relating thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  B  of  section 6221 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 87 of the  laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  B.  Senior  college  capital  costs.  Commencing with the twelve-month
period beginning July first, nineteen hundred eighty-two and thereafter,
the state shall pay one hundred per centum of capital costs exclusive of
those financed pursuant to the provisions of article one  hundred  twen-
ty-five-B of this chapter, of the senior colleges of the city university
of  New  York,  provided  however  that commencing with the twelve month
period beginning July first, nineteen hundred eighty-two and thereafter,
the state shall pay one hundred per centum of capital costs exclusive of
those financed pursuant to the provisions of article one  hundred  twen-
ty-five-B  of  this  chapter,  of the college of Staten Island, New York
city college of technology and, commencing with the twelve month  period
beginning  July  first, [nineteen hundred ninety-four] TWO THOUSAND NINE
and thereafter, [the state shall pay to the city university of New  York
fifty  per  centum  of  the  capital  costs  of]  Medgar  Evers college,
provided, however, that appropriations authorizing such costs have  been
approved  by the legislature. The advancement of capital projects pursu-
ant to this subdivision shall be undertaken only in accordance with  the
provisions  of  section  ninety-three  of  the  state  finance law. [The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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advancement of capital projects at Medgar Evers  college  shall  require
the prior approval of the mayor of the city of New York.]
  S  2.  Paragraph (i) of subdivision E of section 6221 of the education
law, as added by chapter 170 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read  as
follows:
  (i)  in  addition  to the amounts specified in subparagraph e of para-
graph two of subdivision A of this section, the city of New  York  shall
annually appropriate in its expense budget and pay to the city universi-
ty of New York as operating aid in support of the programs and services,
an  amount for each full-time equivalent student in the associate degree
program of the college equal to the amount  the  city  of  New  York  is
appropriating  and  paying  for each full-time equivalent student in the
community colleges; AND
  S 3. Paragraph (ii) of subdivision E of section 6221 of the  education
law is REPEALED and paragraph (iii) is renumbered paragraph (ii).
  S  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately,  provided  that no
provision of this act shall be construed to affect the amounts appropri-
ated by the city of New York for  the  capital  costs  of  Medgar  Evers
college  for  any  fiscal year of such city ending on or before June 30,
2009.