Senate Bill S5190

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   5190
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- 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  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
 sciences  as  a  four-year  state  university of New York in the city of
 Yonkers, county of Westchester.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (b) The board of trustees of the state  university  shall  select  the
 location of such college within the city of Yonkers and provide for such
 college  to  be an accessible, affordable, competitive, four-year, bach-
 elor's level, degree-granting college of the state university.
   (c)  The  purpose  of this college of engineering and applied sciences
 shall be to offer majors in  industrial/manufacturing,  engineering  and
 technology,  transportation  engineering  and technology, computer engi-
 neering and technology, telecommunications engineering  and  technology,
 environmental  engineering  and  technology,  biomedical engineering and
 technology, civil engineering and technology and the history of  econom-
 ics of science and technology.
   (d)  The  board  of trustees of the state university of New York shall
 conduct all the duties required under article 8  of  the  education  law
 upon  the  establishment  of the state university of New York college of
 engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, establish  a  master  plan,
 establish  standards  and promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
 for the establishment of such college.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.