Bill Text: NY A02322 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes academic performance awards for incarcerated persons making such persons eligible to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to higher education [A02322 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02322-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2322

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. AUBRY, O'DONNELL, EPSTEIN, WEPRIN, DE LA ROSA,
          GOTTFRIED, SIMON, HYNDMAN, BARRON -- read once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  repeal  paragraph  d of subdivision 6 of section 661 of the
          education law relating to the ban on incarcerated persons for  receiv-
          ing student financial aid awards

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 6 of section 661 of  the  educa-
     2  tion law is REPEALED.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00417-01-1