New York A 5457: Phases out certain mandatory university fees for graduate students
Status: SUBSTITUTED BY S3458 (as of 2025-06-16)
State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 5457
Sponsors: Michaelle C. Solages, Demond Meeks, Doug Smith, Gabriella Romero, Judy Griffin, Landon C. Dais, Micah Lasher, Nader Sayegh, Noah Burroughs, Rebecca Seawright, Sarah Clark, Sarahana Shrestha, Tommy Schiavoni, William Conrad
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Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly • • • • • • • • Skip to main content New York State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie --> --> --> • Assembly Members • Legislative Info • Public Hearings • Speaker's Press • Assembly Reports • Committees & More • Bill Search Home • Laws • Legislative Calendar • Public Hearing Schedule • Assembly Calendars • Assembly Committee Agenda Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. - This bill is not active in this session. Bill No.: • Summary • Actions • Committee Votes • Floor Votes • Memo • Text • LFIN • Chamber Video/Transcript A05457 Summary: BILL NOA05457   SAME ASSAME AS S03458   SPONSORSolages   COSPNSRBurroughs, Seawright, Romero, Lasher, Dais, Meeks, Schiavoni, Clark, Shrestha, Smith, Conrad, Sayegh, Griffin   MLTSPNSR   Amd §§355 & 6206, Ed L   Provides that beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain graduate students shall be required to pay 25% of all current and future mandatory university fees; provides that in the 2027-2028 academic year and thereafter, no mandatory university fees shall be charged, with the exclusion of the graduate student association student activity fee. Go to top A05457 Actions: BILL NOA05457   02/14/2025referred to higher education 05/28/2025reported referred to ways and means 06/16/2025reported referred to rules 06/16/2025reported 06/16/2025rules report cal.789 06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.789 06/16/2025substituted by s3458  S03458 AMEND= STAVISKY  01/27/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION  03/04/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE  05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1350  05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.  06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING  06/05/2025PASSED SENATE  06/05/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY  06/05/2025referred to ways and means  06/16/2025substituted for a5457  06/16/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.789  06/16/2025passed assembly  06/16/2025returned to senate  12/08/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR  12/19/2025VETOED MEMO.139 Go to topA05457 Committee Votes: Committee:HIGHER EDUCATION Chair:Hyndman DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:26/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means HyndmanAyeSmullenAye LupardoAyeSmithAye StirpeAyeFitzpatrickAye SimonAyeReillyAye McDonaldAyeMillerAye Bichotte HermelAyeGrayAye McMahonAyePirozzoloAye ButtenschonAyeSempolinskiAye ClarkAye ForrestAye Chandler-WatermAye SeawrightAye EachusAye SayeghAye ReyesAye GriffinAye KellesAye O'PharrowAye Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:32/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaAye GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye ColtonAyeHawleyAye CookAyeBlankenbushAye BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye WeprinAyeWalshAye RamosAbsentDeStefanoAye BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye McDonaldAyeSmullenAye RozicExcusedGiglioAye DinowitzAye MagnarelliAye BronsonAye DilanAye SeawrightAye HyndmanAye WalkerAye Bichotte HermelAye SimonAye CruzAye OtisAye SolagesAye HunterAye EpsteinAye SeptimoAbsent Committee:RULES Chair:Glick DATE:06/16/2025AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye PretlowAyeHawleyAye CookAyeBlankenbushAye GlickAyeRaAye DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye ColtonAyePalmesanoAye MagnarelliAyeReillyAye PaulinAyeSmithAye Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye BenedettoAye LavineAye LupardoAye BraunsteinAye DavilaAye HyndmanAye RozicExcused BronsonAye HevesiAye HunterAye TaylorAye CruzAye VanelAye Go to topA05457 Floor Votes: There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session. Go to topA05457 Text: STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5457 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to phasing out certain mandatory university fees for graduate students 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) (i) Beginning in the two thousand twenty-six--two thousand twen- 4 ty-seven academic year, all current and future mandatory university 5 fees, with the exclusion of the graduate student association student 6 activity fee, shall be charged to a state university of New York gradu- 7 ate student serving a full-time or half-time appointment as a graduate 8 teaching assistant, graduate assistant, graduate research assistant, 9 graduate research associate, or graduate teaching associate at the rate 10 of twenty-five percent of all mandatory university fees, with the exclu- 11
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