Bill Text: NY A03449 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Raises the minimum tuition assistance program award an eligible graduate student may receive per year to five hundred dollars.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-12 - held for consideration in higher education [A03449 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A03449-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3449
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 25, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, BARRON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BROOK-KRASNY, COLTON, PEOPLES-STOKES, RA, WRIGHT -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the minimum
tuition assistance program award for eligible graduate students to
five hundred dollars per year and increasing the maximum to eight
hundred dollars per year
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of
2 section 667 of the education law, as amended by chapter 309 of the laws
3 of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
4 (v) The award shall be the net amount of the base amount determined
5 pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph reduced pursuant to
6 subparagraph (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph but the award shall not be
7 reduced below [one] FIVE hundred dollars. If the income exceeds the
8 maximum amount of income allowable under subparagraph (ii) or (iii) of
9 this paragraph, no award shall be made.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2014, and shall be first
11 effective for awards made for the 2014-2015 academic year.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00058-01-3
