Bill Text: NY A03361 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that for purposes of the amount of an award under the tuition assistance program, any student who received an award for not more than two semesters prior to the 1989-1990 academic year and who returns to full-time undergraduate study shall be deemed to have received his or her first award in the academic year in which he or she returns to full-time study.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to higher education [A03361 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A03361-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3361 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 25, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, CLARK, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, ORTIZ, SWEENEY, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to tuition assistance program awards THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 667 of the education law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows: 3 E. DETERMINATION OF AWARD. FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE AMOUNT 4 OF AN AWARD, ANY STUDENT WHO RECEIVED AN AWARD PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION 5 FOR NOT MORE THAN TWO SEMESTERS PRIOR TO THE NINETEEN HUNDRED 6 EIGHTY-NINE--NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY ACADEMIC YEAR AND WHO RETURNS TO 7 FULL-TIME UNDERGRADUATE STUDY SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE RECEIVED HIS OR 8 HER FIRST AWARD IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR IN WHICH HE OR SHE RETURNS TO 9 FULL-TIME STUDY. APPLICATION OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL HAVE NO EFFECT ON 10 THE DURATION OF AWARD PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION. 11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 12 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. LBD05947-01-1