Bill Text: NY S00347 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases the maximum time limits for tuition assistance program awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S00347 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00347-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           347

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to permitting tuition
          assistance program awards for an aggregate six years of study

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  667 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 376 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  Duration.  No undergraduate shall be eligible for more than [four]
     5  six academic years of study in the aggregate, or [five]  seven  academic
     6  years  in  the  aggregate if the program of study normally requires five
     7  years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial study, approved by the
     8  commissioner in an institution  of  higher  education  and  intended  to
     9  culminate in a degree in undergraduate study shall, for purposes of this
    10  section,  be  considered  as  enrolled  in  a  program of study normally
    11  requiring five years. An undergraduate student enrolled in  an  eligible
    12  two year program of study approved by the commissioner shall be eligible
    13  for  no more than [three] four academic years of study in the aggregate.
    14  An undergraduate student  enrolled  in  an  approved  two  or  four-year
    15  program  of  study  approved  by  the  commissioner who must transfer to
    16  another institution as a result of permanent college  closure  shall  be
    17  eligible for up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, to the
    18  extent  credits  necessary  to complete his or her program of study were
    19  deemed non-transferable from the closed institution or were  deemed  not
    20  applicable  to  such  student's program of study by the new institution.
    21  Any semester, quarter, or term of  attendance  during  which  a  student
    22  receives  any  award under this article, after the effective date of the
    23  former scholar incentive program and prior  to  academic  year  nineteen
    24  hundred  eighty-nine--nineteen  hundred  ninety, shall be counted toward

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01537-01-3

        S. 347                              2

     1  the maximum term  of  eligibility  for  tuition  assistance  under  this
     2  section,  except that any semester, quarter or term of attendance during
     3  which a student received  an  award  pursuant  to  section  six  hundred
     4  sixty-six  of  this  subpart shall be counted as one-half of a semester,
     5  quarter or term, as the case may be, toward the maximum term  of  eligi-
     6  bility  under  this section. Any semester, quarter or term of attendance
     7  during which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
     8  sixty-seven-a of this subpart shall not be counted  toward  the  maximum
     9  term of eligibility under this section.
    10    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    11  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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