Bill Text: NY A09039 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Allows colleges and universities participating in the higher education opportunity program to spend program funds on certain expenses beneficial to students: student travel for academic activities or conferences; expenses related to helping students apply for and prepare for graduate or professional school; the hiring of students participating in an Arthur O. Eve opportunity for higher education work-study program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-15 - substituted by s7348a [A09039 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09039-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9039--A IN ASSEMBLY January 19, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, GOTTFRIED, COOK, JAFFEE, WALKER, STECK, PEOPLES-STOKES, COLTON, SIMON, JOYNER, MOSLEY, HOOPER, BICHOTTE, HYNDMAN, CAHILL, CRESPO, BLAKE, ARROYO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPARDO, MAGEE, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to contracts for the Arthur O. Eve opportunity for higher education 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 6451 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 149 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. Moneys made available to institutions through contracts shall be 5 spent only for the following purposes: 6 a. Special testing, counseling and guidance services in the course of 7 screening potential enrollees; 8 b. Remedial courses, developmental or compensatory courses and summer 9 classes for such students; 10 c. Special tutoring, counseling and guidance services for such 11 enrolled students; 12 d. Any necessary supplemental financial assistance, which may include 13 the cost of books and necessary maintenance for such enrolled students; 14 provided, however, that such supplemental financial assistance shall be 15 furnished pursuant to criteria promulgated by the commissioner with the 16 approval of the director of the budget[.]; 17 e. Partial reimbursement for tuition for regular academic courses 18 pursuant to criteria promulgated by the commissioner [of education.]; 19 f. Student travel for academic activities or conferences; 20 g. Expenses related to helping students apply for and prepare for 21 graduate or professional school; and 22 h. The hiring of enrolled students participating in an Arthur O. Eve 23 opportunity for higher education work-study program. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 25 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. LBD13633-02-6