What's happening
This bill ensures counties are reimbursed by the state for costs of non-resident students at the Fashion Institute of Technology, preventing local chargebacks.
Why it matters
Shifts the financial burden of non-resident student tuition at FIT from local governments (cities, towns, villages) to the state. , reducing unexpected costs for smaller municipalities and relieving local taxpayers from funding these "chargebacks."
Ensures counties are only exempt from passing on these charges if the state fully reimburses them. , protecting counties from financial risk if state appropriations are insufficient.
May improve access and planning for students attending FIT from outside New York City. , as counties are less likely to restrict or complicate certificates of residence due to financial concerns.
Could lead to more predictable and equitable cost-sharing across New York State for specialized higher education programs. , rather than leaving certain localities disproportionately responsible for costs.
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Who cares
County governments
The bill would bar counties from charging cities, towns or villages for non-resident FIT students’ upper-division costs when counties receive state funds equal to those costs, subject to available appropriations starting in state fiscal year 2018–2019.
City, town and village governments
They would be protected from county chargebacks for those upper-division costs when the state funding conditions are met.
State budget officials and lawmakers
State appropriations would determine whether the bill’s conditional protection against local chargebacks applies.
Headline styles
State Pays Counties’ FIT Costs
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Sponsors
13 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to higher education
- Referred to higher education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
301
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 5, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, GOTTFRIED, GARBARINO, ZEBROWSKI, WALTER, SKARTADOS, SALADINO, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, PERRY, RIVERA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state reimbursement to counties for amounts paid on behalf of non-resident students in attendance at the fashion institute of technology
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 6305 of the education law, as added by chapter 170 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
10. On or before March thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-five and every year thereafter, the state shall reimburse each county which has issued a certificate of residence for any non-resident student in attendance at the fashion institute of technology during the nineteen hundred ninety-three--ninety-four academic year and every year thereafter in an amount equal to fifty percent of the actual amount paid by such county on behalf of such students and on or before June first, nineteen hundred ninety-five and every year thereafter, the state shall reimburse each county for the remaining fifty percent of the actual amount paid by each such county on behalf of such students. Notwithstanding subdivision five of this section, and subject to the availability of state appropriations for state fiscal years two thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen and thereafter, general county charges payable to the fashion institute of technology for non-resident students enrolled in upper division classes shall not be charged back to any city, town or village within the county. Provided, that the counties have received funds equal to such costs from the state.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01764-01-7
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