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A11145 • 2025

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

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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Sponsor
Phil Steck
Last action
2026-04-24
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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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

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 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.

What This Bill Does

  • 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 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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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-24 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

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
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.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          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:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa-
     2  tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 1-a to read as follows:
     3    (1-A) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF ANY OTHER GENERAL, SPECIAL  OR
     4  LOCAL  LAW, RULE OR REGULATION, SUCH REGULATIONS SHALL ALSO PROVIDE THAT
     5  THE PAYMENT OF TUITION BY ANY STUDENT IN ANY STATE-OPERATED  INSTITUTION
     6  OF  THE STATE UNIVERSITY REMAINS FIXED AT THE RATE IN EFFECT AT THE TIME
     7  OF MATRICULATION IN A TWO-YEAR OR FOUR-YEAR ACADEMIC PROGRAM.
     8    § 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