 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6780
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 16, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- (at request of the State Education Depart-
          ment)  --  read  twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  establishing  the
          board  of  regents  institutional accreditation account to provide the
          framework for the state education department to spend monies  received
          and/or  revenues  generated  for institutional accreditation purposes;
          and to amend the education law, in relation to services and  functions
          relating to institutional accreditation
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  97-yyyy to read as follows:
     3    §  97-yyyy.  Board of regents institutional accreditation account.  1.
     4  There is hereby established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comp-
     5  troller  and  the commissioner of taxation and finance an account of the
     6  miscellaneous special revenue fund to be known as the board  of  regents
     7  institutional accreditation account.
     8    2.  Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary,
     9  the state comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to  receive  for
    10  deposit  to  the  credit  of the board of regents institutional accredi-
    11  tation option account, revenues generated pursuant to regulations of the
    12  commissioner of education for services  and  expenses  incurred  by  the
    13  state  education  department in conducting accreditation of institutions
    14  of higher education or appropriated or otherwise provided to  the  state
    15  education department for such purposes.
    16    §  2.  Section  212  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
    17  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    18    8. To perform services and functions relating to institutional accred-
    19  itation.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13249-01-7
Relates to institutional accreditation

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