Assembly Bill A5804

2023-2024 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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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A5804 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359, Ed L

2023-A5804 (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.

2023-A5804 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5804
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred 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
   system
 
   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.
                                                            LBD02559-01-3

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