Assembly Bill A87

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers

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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-A87 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S290
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §352, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5361, S3501
2011-2012: A2436, A10284, S1631
2013-2014: A3609, A6808, S3019
2015-2016: A1943, S1644
2017-2018: A2280, S771
2019-2020: A6209, S5551
2021-2022: A3291, S1105

2023-A87 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.

2023-A87 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    87
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to establishing a SUNY
   four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the  city  of
   Yonkers

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section  352  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  13  of  the  laws  of  2021, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. The state university shall consist of the four  university  centers
 at  Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated colleges
 of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo,
 New Paltz, Old  Westbury,  Oneonta,  Oswego,  Plattsburgh,  Potsdam  and
 Purchase,  THE  COLLEGE  OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES AT YONKERS,
 empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges at Alfred,
 Canton,  Cobleskill,  Delhi,  Farmingdale  and  Morrisville,   downstate
 medical  center,  upstate  medical center, the college of optometry, the
 college of environmental science and  forestry,  maritime  college,  the
 college  of technology at Utica/Rome, the statutory or contract colleges
 at Cornell university and Alfred university, and such additional univer-
 sities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and research centers
 as have been or hereafter may  be  acquired,  established,  operated  or
 contracted  to  be  operated for the state by the state university trus-
 tees.
   § 2. (a) The trustees of the state university of New York  are  hereby
 authorized  and  directed  to immediately take all actions to create and
 establish within the state university system, and subject to the  juris-
 diction  of such board of trustees, a college of engineering and applied
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01752-01-3
              

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