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Senate Bill S21

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires the state university trustees to establish a process to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system

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2015-S21 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1815
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง359, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2731, A3162
2011-2012: S1943, A2138
2013-2014: S1846, A737
2017-2018: S2751, A4976
2019-2020: A3952

2015-S21 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state university trustees to report to the governor and the legislature concerning the steps taken to establish a process by which decisions are made to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system.

2015-S21 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S21 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   21

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE,  DeFRANCISCO,  LARKIN  -- read twice and
  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
  Higher Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to efforts to reduce
  duplication of academic degree programs within the state university

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

  Section 1. Section 359 of the education law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 6 to read as follows:
  6.  THE  TRUSTEES  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A  PROCESS TO ELIMINATE OR REDUCE
DUPLICATION OF ACADEMIC DEGREE PROGRAMS. SUCH PROCESS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE  PROMULGATION  OF  CRITERIA  TO  DETERMINE  WHICH
PROGRAMS  SHALL BE CONSIDERED FOR ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION, RECOGNI-
TION OF THE EFFECT OF ELIMINATION OR CONSOLIDATION  ON  ACCESS  TO  SUCH
DEGREE  PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, CONSIDERATION OF
THE FISCAL  IMPLICATIONS  OF  ANY  SUCH  ELIMINATION  OR  CONSOLIDATION,
CONSIDERATION  OF THE RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE
LAW OF MEMBERS OF CERTIFIED  BARGAINING  UNITS  EMPLOYED  BY  THE  STATE
UNIVERSITY, AND A PROCESS BY WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE HELD BEFORE ELIM-
INATION OR CONSOLIDATION OF ANY DEGREE PROGRAM.
  S  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00723-01-5

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