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BILL NUMBER:S6862
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, the civil service law, the election law, the executive law, the public officers law, the state finance law, the tax law, the labor law, the transportation law, the economic development law, the public authorities law, and the general municipal law, in relation to transferring the powers and duties of the city university of New York to the state university of New York and to repeal certain provisions of the education law, the tax law, the executive law, the state finance law, the general municipal law and the public authorities law relating thereto
Summary
Section 1, Sub 1: Transfers the powers and duties of the city university of New York (CUNY) to the state university of New York (SUNY).
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Sub 2: Transfers all CUNY employees to SUNY employees in terms of function. Officers and employees of CUNY shall be transferred without further examination or qualification, and shall retain their respective civil service classification, status and bargaining unit representation.
Sub 3: Abolishes the functions, powers, obligations and duties of CUNY
Sub 4: The transfer of all powers from CUNY to SUNY for the purpose of succession of all functions, powers, duties and obligations of CUNY shall constitute as the continuation of such functions, powers, duties and obligations under SUNY.
Sub 5: All books, papers, records and property pertaining to CUNY shall be transferred and maintained by SUNY as appropriate.
Sub 6: Any business or other matter undertaken or commend by CUNY pertaining to or connected with the functions, powers, obligations and duties are transferred and assigned to SUNY and may be conducted or completed by SUNY as appropriate.
Sub 7: All references of CUNY in the law shall refer to SUNY.
Sub 8: Upon the transfer of functions from CUNY to SUNY no existing right of the state shall be lost, impaired or affected by reason of this section.
Sub 9: No action or proceeding pending on the effective date of this section, brought by or against CUNY or the board of trustees thereof
shall be affected by any provision of this section, but the same may be prosecuted or defended in the name of SUNY.
Sub 10: All rules, regulations, acts, orders, determinations, and decisions of CUNY in force and assigned to SUNY shall continue in force and effect as those of SUNY until duly modified or repealed.
Sub 11: All appropriations and reappropriations made available to CUNY, to extent of remaining unexpended or unencumbered, allocated or unallocated and obligated or unobligated, shall be transferred for used by SUNY. Payments of liabilities by CUNY shall be made by SUNY.
Section 2: Repeals Article 125 of the education law.
Section 3: This act takes effect on the first July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
Justification
It is well known that the key to the future of our state lies in the education of our young men and women. While it has always been the mission of our institutions of higher education to assist the undergraduate population, recent budgetary cutbacks have severely curtailed the educational opportunity for many. Every year tuition rises and every session the Legislature must make the difficult decision of whether or not to cut the Tuition Assistance Program. In fact the CUNY board of trustees have recently approved a plan to increase tuition by 31% by 2015. This comes in a time when our student population needs to be better educated, better trained and better prepared for the workforce.
No longer can we, as state officials, allow our public institutions to fail our students. The answer to decreased graduation rates is not to revamp the system to make it easier to graduate. The institution must use its funds efficiently in order to invest in the resources necessary to adequately prepare our students to compete in the real world.
No longer can we, as state officials, expect to have a future tax base when the educational tools are no longer available to our students. In order to remedy this cycle of increased costs for decreased value and continual budgetary onslaught on institutions of higher education, we must consolidate our higher education system to reduce administrative costs, increase efficiency, and most importantly prepare our students.
In order to achieve this goal, I have proposed to consolidate the city university of New York and the state university of New York to reduce duplicative administration costs in order to keep tuition costs down and increase educational prosperity.
Legislative history
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Fiscal implications
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the first July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
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