S5355 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Requires the SUNY and CUNY boards of trustees and boards of trustees of community colleges to establish a policy for the awarding of posthumous degrees; requires such policy to waive any remaining credits for enrolled matriculated students who die and would otherwise have been eligible for graduation had they been able to complete their academic career.
- Title
- Requires the SUNY and CUNY boards of trustees to establish a policy for the awarding of posthumous degrees
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- Senate Floor Calendar
- Latest action date
- 2023-06-07
- Introduced
- 2023-03-02
- Active version
- S5355A
- Same as
- A4942
- Substituted by
- A4942
- Law section
- Education Law
Sponsors
- Jabari Brisport State Senator, District 25
Co-sponsors
- Julia Salazar State Senator, District 18
Heard in committee
- Higher Education NY State Assembly committee
- Higher Education NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A4942 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Substituted by
- A4942 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Higher Education, 2023-05-09 First reading