Establishes a procedure for schools to implement corrective action plans upon notification of a violation. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Seeks to open accessibility for academically qualified students who are bona fide residents of the state of New York to obtain reserved seats at minority institutions of higher learning; authorizes commissioner of education to contract with the University of Padua, Padua, Italy, the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada, and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, the City University of New York Medical School, for the purpose of expanding opportunities for New York state residents to study medicine. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to tuition and state operating support of the state university of New York. / Sponsor: SEWARD Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes the trustees of the state university to permit persons sixty years of age or over to take courses on a space available basis given therein for credit or without examination, without tuition; such eligible persons may take up to nine hours of courses for credit without tuition. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Requires the state university trustees to report to the governor and the legislature concerning the steps taken to establish a process by which decisions are made to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Expands the definition of the practice of podiatry to include conditions of the ankle and all soft tissues structures of the leg below the knee anatomically affecting the foot and ankle; establishes podiatrists licensed prior to the effective date of this act need to be certified to operate on the ankle; provides for the conducting of office-based surgery by podiatrists; directs the department of health to study the feasibility of a podiatrist profiling program; authorizes the calling of a physician as an expert witness in a podiatric medical malpractice cause of action. / Sponsor: ALESI Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Extends provisions of chapter 57 of the laws of 2005 relating to the NYS nursing faculty loan forgiveness incentive program and NYS nursing faculty scholarship program. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Establishes procedures and guidelines for which a test subject may request and obtain information and materials regarding a standardized test. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Prohibits a medical doctor from stating that he or she is board certified or eligible for certification by a private or public board or parent association unless the board or association is an American Board of Medical Specialities member board, or a member board of the American Osteopathic Association, or is a board or association with equivalent requirements approved by that physician and surgeon's licensing board, or is a board or association with an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved postgraduate training program that provides complete training in that specialty or subspecialty. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Requires that consumer representatives be appointed to state boards for the professions. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes establishment of a CUNY internet-based college. / Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes establishment of a SUNY internet-based college. / Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes Cornell University to enter into memoranda of understanding with state agencies to provide services and technical assistance. / Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Requires pharmacies to post notice of the professional misconduct complaint process. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Provides that the trustees of the state university of New York may authorize the establishment of a new category of tuition for non-resident students enrolled in distance learning courses. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Provides that certain information concerning standardized test scores shall be provided to all test subjects who do not sign a waiver. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes the lease of lands located at the state university of New York at Purchase to provide faculty and staff housing. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes the lease of lands located at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. / Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes the state university of New York institute of technology to lease certain lands to Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Inc. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Requires registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, physicians, physicians assistants and specialist assistants to complete approved domestic violence training or course work; provides that for nurses, completion of course work or training and documentation thereof begins with the first registration after 1/1/2014 and must be provided every four years afterwards; provides that for physicians, physician assistants and specialist assistants, completion of course work or training and documentation thereof must be provided on or before 1/1/2014 and every four years afterwards; provides for exemptions. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION