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Higher Education Committee: votes and referrals on 15 bills (committee meeting summary)
Summary
The Senate Committee on Higher Education considered 15 bills spanning expedited program approval, board appointments, funding conditions, training requirements, licensure compacts, campus services and student-access measures. This summary lists each bill as described on the committee agenda and the committee’s recorded outcome or referral.
The New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education convened and considered 15 bills. The committee recorded votes, referrals and recommendations for each measure as shown below. This summary uses the bill descriptions read into the record and the committee’s announced procedural outcomes.
Votes and referrals (as recorded in committee):
- Senate bill 610 (by Senator Stavisky, on expedited approval for registration of new curricula for nonprofit colleges and SUNY/CUNY): Reported to the floor; if enacted would take effect 90 days after becoming law.
- Senate bill (number in transcript read as "This bill amends the education law to ensure that gubernatorial and mayoral appointments to the State University of New York and the City University of New York boards of trustees are independent of the appointing entities"): Reported to the floor; if enacted would take effect immediately and apply to trustees appointed on or after the effective date.
- Senate bill 1268 (by Senator Rose; bill to prohibit funding to institutions permitting support of organizations designated under 8 U.S.C. 1189): Defeated in committee; chair announced…
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