Bill Text: NY A07311 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the total funding of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty scholarship program to five million dollars annually; permits awards covering the total cost of a recipient's academic program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - held for consideration in higher education [A07311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07311-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7311

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 5, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the total
          funding of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing  faculty  scholarship
          program and providing for increased awards

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 3 of section 679-c of the
     2  education law, as amended by section 1 of part E3 of chapter 57  of  the
     3  laws of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  equal  to  the  [tuition]  total  cost  charged  to state resident
     5  students attending a master's degree  program  in  nursing  or  doctoral
     6  degree  program  that  will  qualify  them as nursing faculty or adjunct
     7  clinical faculty at the state  university  of  New  York[;  the  average
     8  mandatory fees charged at the state university of New York, or the actu-
     9  al tuition and fees charged to the recipient, whichever is less; and the
    10  average non-tuition cost of attendance, as determined by the corporation
    11  and  as  approved  by  the  director of the budget, for a student at the
    12  state university of New York or actual non-tuition cost of attendance at
    13  such institution, whichever is  less],  provided  that  the  scholarship
    14  shall not exceed an amount that is equal to the total cost of attendance
    15  determined  for  federal  Title IV student financial aid purposes[, less
    16  all other scholarships and grants provided  by  New  York  state,  other
    17  states,  the federal government, or other governments, and the amount of
    18  educational benefits paid under any program  that  would  duplicate  the
    19  purposes  of  this  program,  provided  that  any scholarships or grants
    20  provided to a recipient by the institution which are  intended  to  fund
    21  any  portion  of  the  difference between the annual state award and the
    22  actual costs of attendance at any such institution shall not be  consid-
    23  ered to duplicate the purposes of this program].

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10846-01-1
        A. 7311                             2

     1    b.  The  total  cost  of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty
     2  scholarship program shall not  exceed  an  annual  cost  of  [two]  five
     3  million  dollars[,  and  no  annual  award  shall exceed twenty thousand
     4  dollars].
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.