Bill Text: NY A09641 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the higher education services corporation to consider an applicant's change in income due to the loss of employment in determining eligibility and award amount for the tuition assistance program; provides for the repeal of such provisions on December 31, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-15 - enacting clause stricken [A09641 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09641-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9641

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 26, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  allowing  the  higher
          education  services  corporation  to consider an applicant's change in
          income due to the loss of employment in  determining  eligibility  and
          award  amount  for  the tuition assistance program; and to provide for
          the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section  663 of the education law, as
     2  amended by section 3 of part J of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2011,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    5.  a.  Adjustments  of  income.  In  the  determination of income for
     5  purposes of paragraphs a and b  of  subdivision  three  of  section  six
     6  hundred  sixty-seven  of this part if, during the academic year in which
     7  the applicant will receive an award, one of either the  parents  of  the
     8  applicant  or  other  dependent child of such parents, the spouse of the
     9  applicant, or one or more dependent children of the applicant, in  addi-
    10  tion  to  the  applicant, will be in full-time attendance in an approved
    11  program, the combined net taxable income  determined  under  subdivision
    12  one  of  this  section shall be reduced by three thousand dollars and an
    13  additional two thousand dollars for each other such person additional to
    14  the aforesaid persons (including the applicant)  who  will  be  in  such
    15  attendance,  and  the  resulting  amount  shall be deemed the applicable
    16  income in determining the applicant's award for the academic year.
    17    b. For the two thousand twenty-three--two thousand twenty-four academ-
    18  ic year, the corporation,  pursuant  to  rules  and  regulations,  shall
    19  consider  an  applicant's change in income due to the loss of employment
    20  of the applicant or parent of the applicant and utilize the  applicant's
    21  income  reported  in  New  York  state  income tax returns for the prior
    22  calendar year in making adjustments to eligibility and the amount of the
    23  award for such academic year. The corporation may require such  documen-
    24  tary  evidence, testimony or affidavits as it deems sufficient in grant-
    25  ing such an adjustment of an award.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    27  deemed repealed December 31, 2024.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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