Bill Text: NY A00387 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Raises the minimum tuition assistance program award an eligible graduate student may receive per year to five hundred dollars.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A00387 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00387-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           387
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,
          PEOPLES-STOKES, RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on High-
          er Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the minimum
          tuition assistance program award for  eligible  graduate  students  to
          five hundred dollars per year
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   Subparagraph (v) of  paragraph  b  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section  667 of the education law, as amended by chapter 309 of the laws
     3  of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (v) The award shall be the net amount of the  base  amount  determined
     5  pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of  this  paragraph reduced pursuant to
     6  subparagraph (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph but the award shall not  be
     7  reduced  below  [one]  five  hundred  dollars. If the income exceeds the
     8  maximum amount of income allowable under subparagraph (ii) or  (iii)  of
     9  this paragraph, no award shall be made.
    10    §  2.  This  act  shall  take effect April 1, 2020, and shall be first
    11  effective for awards made for the 2020-2021 academic year.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05261-01-9