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Senate Bill S2751A

2017-2018 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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2017-S2751 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4976
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2731, A3162
2011-2012: S1943, A2138
2013-2014: S1846, A737
2015-2016: S21, A1815
2019-2020: A3952

2017-S2751 - Summary

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

2017-S2751 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2751 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2751
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD08100-01-7

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2017-S2751A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4976
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2731, A3162
2011-2012: S1943, A2138
2013-2014: S1846, A737
2015-2016: S21, A1815
2019-2020: A3952

2017-S2751A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S2751A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2751A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2751--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE,  DeFRANCISCO,  LARKIN  -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Higher  Education  -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education
   in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 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 7 to read as follows:
   7.  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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD08100-02-8

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