Bill Text: NY A01889 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-14)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-18 - print number 1889a [A01889 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01889-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1889--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, ZEBROWSKI, McMAHON, KELLES, SEAWRIGHT, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, GALLAHAN, GALLAGHER, SAYEGH, BURKE, HUNTER, STIRPE, CONRAD, J. A. GIGLIO, JONES, THIELE, FAHY, LUNSFORD, MEEKS, SILLITTI, BRONSON, HEVESI, DAVILA, SIMON, STERN, WOERNER, BRABENEC, ANGELINO, J. M. GIGLIO, TAGUE, JACOBSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MIKULIN, LUPARDO, K. BROWN, SIMONE, BENDETT, CURRAN, RAGA, FLOOD, BURGOS, JEAN-PIERRE, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, ZACCARO, AUBRY, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of 2 section 667 of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of 3 chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 4 (ii) Except for students as noted in subparagraph (iii) of this para- 5 graph, the base amount as determined from subparagraph (i) of this para- 6 graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows: 7 Amount of income Schedule of reduction 8 of base amount 9 (A) Less than seven thousand None 10 dollars 11 (B) Seven thousand dollars or Seven per centum of excess 12 more, but less than eleven over seven thousand dollars 13 thousand dollars 14 (C) Eleven thousand dollars or Two hundred eighty dollars EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04708-03-4A. 1889--A 2 1 more, but less than eighteen plus ten per centum of excess 2 thousand dollars over eleven thousand dollars 3 (D) Eighteen thousand dollars or Nine hundred eighty dollars 4 more, but not more than [eighty]plus twelve per centum of 5 one hundred twenty-five excess over eighteen 6 thousand dollars thousand dollars 7 § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.