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NY A05390

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

Stephen Hawley

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Extends tuition-free course auditing privileges at SUNY institutions and community colleges to active volunteer firefighters and active volunteer ambulance workers, a benefit currently available only to persons 60 years of age or older

  • Allows eligible volunteers to audit courses without tuition, examination, grading, or credit on a space-available basis, as determined by each institution's president

  • Authorizes the SUNY Board of Trustees to establish regulations allowing active volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers to receive course credit for successfully completed audited courses

  • Permits institutions to award credit to volunteers who are currently enrolled or later become enrolled as full-time or part-time students

  • Takes effect 90 days after becoming law

Legislative Description

Extends tuition free course benefits to volunteer firefighters or voluntary ambulance workers; authorizes the board of trustees of the state university to regulate the conferral of such benefits.

Last Action

enacting clause stricken

4/3/2025

Committee Referrals

Higher Education2/13/2025

Full Bill Text

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