S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6811
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 21, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to establish a private student loan refinance task force; and
providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. There is hereby established the private student loan refi-
nance task force. The purpose of such task force is to study and analyze
ways lending institutions that offer private student loans to New York
graduates of institutions of higher education can be incentives and
encouraged to create student loan refinance programs.
§ 2. The private student loan refinance task force shall consist of 11
members and shall include: the state comptroller or his or her designee,
the superintendent of financial services or his or her designee, the
president of the higher education services corporation or his or her
designee, the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and
assembly committees on higher education or their designees, and 4
members appointed by the governor from lending institutions in New York
that offer private student loans. All appointments of members of the
private student loan refinance task force shall be made no later than
thirty days after the effective date of this act.
§ 3. The president of the higher education services corporation shall
be designated as the chairperson of the private student loan refinance
task force. The members of the private student loan refinance task force
shall serve without compensation, except that members shall be allowed
their necessary and actual expenses incurred in the performance of their
duties under this act.
§ 4. The private student loan refinance task force shall issue a
report of its findings and recommendations to the governor, the tempo-
rary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly no later
than December 31, 2017.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
deemed repealed January 1, 2018.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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