Bill Text: NY A06708 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the deferral of awards granted under the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP); ensures that a TAP award will be paid on time so that the student may pay his or her tuition bill on time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-07 - print number 6708a [A06708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06708-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6708--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 30, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Higher  Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Educa-
          tion  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 prohibiting the defer-
          ral of awards granted under the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 667 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Deferral of tuition assistance program awards prohibited.  Under no
     4  circumstances shall  an  award  granted  under  the  tuition  assistance
     5  program  (TAP)  pursuant  to  this section be deferred until the student
     6  recipient graduates from his or her course of study. The president shall
     7  pay a tuition assistance program award to the  student  recipient  in  a
     8  reasonable timeframe in order to ensure the student recipient is able to
     9  apply  the  award  toward  his  or  her tuition bill on time. No tuition
    10  assistance program award shall be made  contingent  upon  the  student's
    11  graduation from his or her undergraduate or graduate course of study.
    12    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately, and shall apply to
    13  academic quarters and semesters beginning on or after August 1, 2017.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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