S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 13, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including senior citi-
zen students auditing community college classes in the full time
equivalent state aid formula
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6303 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 552 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
follows:
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
local law, rule or regulation, community colleges may permit persons
sixty years of age or over to audit courses given therein without
tuition, examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available
basis, subject to the provisions of section sixty-three hundred four of
this [chapter] ARTICLE, as determined by the president of each such
institution, provided that such audit attendance does not deny course
attendance at a community college by an individual who is otherwise
qualified under the regulations and the provisions of section sixty-
three hundred four of this [chapter] ARTICLE. The provisions of this
[paragraph] SUBDIVISION shall not affect any state aid to community
colleges granted pursuant to THIS article [one hundred twenty-six of
this chapter]. FOR THE PURPOSES OF DETERMINING STATE AID TO SUCH INSTI-
TUTIONS, SUCH PERSONS SIXTY YEARS OF AGE OR OVER WHO AUDIT CLASSES SHALL
BE INCLUDED IN THE FULL TIME EQUIVALENT STATE AID FORMULA.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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