Bill Text: NY S01863 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the education department and OCFS to prepare posters and pamphlets with information regarding higher education funding opportunities for foster youth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-20 - referred to higher education [S01863 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01863-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1863

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- 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 higher education fund-
          ing opportunities for foster youth

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

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22.  The  commissioner,  in  conjunction  with the commissioner of the
     4  office of children and family services, shall create and  display  in  a
     5  visually conspicuous manner posters, pamphlets, or other written materi-
     6  als regarding state and federally operated programs that provide funding
     7  opportunities  for  foster youth at the higher education institutions of
     8  the State University of New York and City University  of  New  York,  as
     9  well as the eligibility requirements for such programs. Such information
    10  shall  be  displayed  at admissions and financial aid offices located on
    11  the premises of such institutions, as  well  as  on  such  institutions'
    12  websites,  the  website of the department, and the website of the office
    13  of children and family services.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04577-01-3