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NY A05390
Bill
Status
2/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
Stephen Hawley
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AI Summary
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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
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Allows eligible volunteers to audit courses without tuition, examination, grading, or credit on a space-available basis, as determined by each institution's president
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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
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Permits institutions to award credit to volunteers who are currently enrolled or later become enrolled as full-time or part-time students
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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