Bill Text: NY A09449 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to income and determinant amount of awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-04 - referred to higher education [A09449 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09449-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9449
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to income as  a  determi-
          nant of amount of awards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  663  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  1  of part F of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. Income defined. Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  section,
     5  "income"  shall  be  the  total  of  the combined net taxable income and
     6  income from pensions of New York state, local governments,  the  federal
     7  government  and  any  private employer of the applicant, the applicant's
     8  spouse, and the applicant's parents, including any pension  and  annuity
     9  income  excluded  for purposes of taxation pursuant to paragraph three-a
    10  of subsection (c) of section six hundred  twelve  of  the  tax  law,  as
    11  reported  in  New  York  state  income tax returns for the calendar year
    12  prior to the calendar year next preceding the beginning  of  the  school
    13  year  for  which  application  for  assistance  is made, except that any
    14  amount received by an applicant  as  a  scholarship  at  an  educational
    15  institution or as a fellowship grant, including the value of contributed
    16  services and accommodations, shall not be included within the definition
    17  of  "income"  for  the purposes of this article. The term "parent" shall
    18  include birth parents, stepparents, adoptive parents and the  spouse  of
    19  an  adoptive  parent.    Income,  if not a whole dollar amount, shall be
    20  assumed to be equal to the next lowest whole dollar amount.  Any  change
    21  in the status of an applicant with regard to the persons responsible for
    22  the  applicant's  support  occurring after the beginning of any semester
    23  shall not be considered to change the applicant's award for that  semes-
    24  ter.
    25    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    26  awards commencing with the school year 2017-2018 and thereafter.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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