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Assembly Bill A6905

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows the state and city university of New York system to offer college credits to prospective students

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2025-A6905 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6696
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§239-c & 6235, Ed L

2025-A6905 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows the state and city university of New York system to offer college credits to prospective students based on such prospective student's performance on the regents examinations.

2025-A6905 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6905
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CHANG -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  providing  college
   credits for students who receive high marks on regents examinations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  239-c
 to read as follows:
   §  239-C.  SCORES REQUIRED ON REGENTS EXAMINATIONS FOR COLLEGE CREDIT.
 1.  A STUDENT SHALL RECEIVE AN AVERAGE SCORE OF EIGHTY  ACROSS  ALL  TEN
 REGENTS  EXAMINATIONS, AND ATTAIN A REGENTS DIPLOMA, IN ORDER TO RECEIVE
 THREE COLLEGE CREDITS TOWARDS GENERAL COURSEWORK AT A  UNIVERSITY.  EACH
 UNIVERSITY  SHALL  DETERMINE  WHICH  GENERAL  EDUCATION COURSEWORK THOSE
 CREDITS MAY BE APPLIED TO ON AN INDIVIDUAL  BASIS  AND  IN  CONSULTATION
 WITH SUCH STUDENT.
   2.  A STUDENT SHALL RECEIVE AN AVERAGE SCORE OF EIGHTY-FIVE ACROSS ANY
 FOUR REGENTS EXAMINATIONS, AND ATTAIN A REGENTS  DIPLOMA,  IN  ORDER  TO
 RECEIVE  THREE COLLEGE CREDITS TOWARDS GENERAL COURSEWORK AT A UNIVERSI-
 TY.  EACH UNIVERSITY SHALL DETERMINE WHICH GENERAL EDUCATION  COURSEWORK
 THOSE  CREDITS MAY BE APPLIED TO ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND IN CONSULTA-
 TION WITH SUCH STUDENT.
   3. A STUDENT SHALL RECEIVE AN AVERAGE SCORE OF NINETY ACROSS ANY  FOUR
 REGENTS  EXAMINATIONS,  AND  ATTAIN  A  REGENTS DIPLOMA WITH AN ADVANCED
 DESIGNATION WITH HONORS, IN ORDER TO RECEIVE SIX COLLEGE CREDITS TOWARDS
 GENERAL COURSEWORK AT A  UNIVERSITY.  EACH  UNIVERSITY  SHALL  DETERMINE
 WHICH GENERAL EDUCATION COURSEWORK THOSE CREDITS MAY BE APPLIED TO ON AN
 INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND IN CONSULTATION WITH SUCH STUDENT.
   4.  A STUDENT SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM AVAILING THEMSELVES OF MULTIPLE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09228-01-5
 A. 6905                             2

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