A 3735: Excludes certain graduate students from mandatory fees.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3735 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, CLARK, SIMON, EACHUS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPARDO, MITAYNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to excluding certain graduate students from mandatory fees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the educa- 2 tion law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 11 to read as follows: 3 (11) All current and future mandatory fees owed on or after January 4 first, two thousand twenty-seven, with the exclusion of the graduate 5 student association student activities fee, shall not be charged to a 6 graduate student serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a grad- 7 uate teaching assistant, graduate assistant, graduate research assist- 8 ant, graduate research associate, or a graduate teaching associate. 9 § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended by 10 adding a new subparagraph (g) to read as follows: 11 (g) All current and future mandatory fees owed on or after January 12 first, two thousand twenty-seven, with the exclusion of the graduate 13 student association student activities fee, shall not be charged to a 14 graduate student serving as a graduate assistant, adjunct instructor, 15 adjunct lecturer, adjunct college laboratory technician or a non-teach- 16 ing adjunct staff member. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05897-01-5