What's happening
This bill requires New York State to fully reimburse counties for payments made on behalf of non-resident students attending community colleges.
Why it matters
Shifts the financial responsibility for non-resident community college students from county governments to New York State, ensuring counties are fully reimbursed. this could provide significant fiscal relief to counties with high numbers of out-of-county students.
Eliminates partial reimbursement and replaces it with a 100% reimbursement model. , removing the previous system where counties had to front half of the costs for non-resident students until later reimbursement.
May help stabilize or even lower local property taxes. by reducing unpredictable county higher education expenditures, which could otherwise be passed on to local taxpayers.
Could encourage greater student mobility and access to community colleges statewide. by removing potential financial disincentives for counties to issue certificates of residence for students attending community colleges outside their home county.
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Reimburse Counties for Student Costs
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6776
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. LUPINACCI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state reimbursement to counties which have issued certificates of residence for non-residents
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] Beginning March thirtyfirst, two thousand seventeen, 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 or any other community college in a given fiscal year in an amount equal to one hundred percent of the actual amount paid by each such county on behalf of such students.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09865-01-7
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