STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROZIC,  BENEDETTO,  CAHILL,  COLTON, JAFFEE,
          KAVANAGH, PEOPLES-STOKES, PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.
          COOK,  GOTTFRIED,  GUNTHER, MAGEE, RIVERA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  duration  of
          tuition assistance awards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 604 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. Tuition assistance awards provided for in subdivision one of this
     4  section shall be available to students enrolled in approved programs for
     5  five academic years in the aggregate.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
     7  the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00520-01-7