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Assembly Bill A11145

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires regulations fixing tuition rates for students once matriculated in a two or four-year program at any state-operated institution of the state university

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2025-A11145 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §355, Ed L

2025-A11145 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires regulations fixing tuition rates for students once matriculated in a two or four-year program at any state-operated institution of the state university.

2025-A11145 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11145
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  fixed  tuition  rates
   for  students  once  matriculated in a two or four-year program at any
   state-operated institution of the state university
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa-
 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 1-a to read as follows:
   (1-A) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF ANY OTHER GENERAL, SPECIAL  OR
 LOCAL  LAW, RULE OR REGULATION, SUCH REGULATIONS SHALL ALSO PROVIDE THAT
 THE PAYMENT OF TUITION BY ANY STUDENT IN ANY STATE-OPERATED  INSTITUTION
 OF  THE STATE UNIVERSITY REMAINS FIXED AT THE RATE IN EFFECT AT THE TIME
 OF MATRICULATION IN A TWO-YEAR OR FOUR-YEAR ACADEMIC PROGRAM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15568-01-6

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