Bill Text: NY A02811 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that a scholarship for academic excellence that is declined by a student or is revoked for any reason shall be granted to the next most qualified student.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to higher education [A02811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02811-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2811
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. WRIGHT, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  scholarships  for
         academic excellence
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 605-a of  the  education  law,  as
    2  amended  by  section  83 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    2. In the event that a scholarship awarded is declined by  a  student,
    5  or  for any reason IS revoked  by the commissioner or the president, its
    6  benefits shall [lapse and there shall be no further payments or awarding
    7  of such scholarship] BE GRANTED TO THE NEXT MOST  QUALIFIED  STUDENT  AS
    8  DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of August next succeeding
   10  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.
                                                                  LBD00651-01-3
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