Bill Text: NY S02944 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides tuition awards to children of firefighters, police officers, volunteer firefighters, and EMTs with permanent and total disabilities, to be applied to any college or university in the state university system or the city university of New York; provides that the award is for tuition, less other aid, and is limited to 4 or 5 academic years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S02944 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S02944-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2944
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 6, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- 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  providing  tuition
         awards  to  children of firefighters, police officers, volunteer fire-
         fighters, and emergency medical technicians with permanent  and  total
         disabilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  669-e
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 669-E. TUITION AWARDS FOR CHILDREN OF FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS,
    4  VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS, AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS WITH PERMANENT
    5  AND  TOTAL DISABILITIES. 1. ELIGIBILITY. A CHILD WHOSE PARENT IS A FIRE-
    6  FIGHTER, POLICE OFFICER, VOLUNTEER  FIREFIGHTER,  OR  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL
    7  TECHNICIAN  WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR PERMANENT AND TOTAL DISABILITY BENEFITS,
    8  SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A TUITION AWARD TO BE MADE AVAILABLE BY THE PRESI-
    9  DENT OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION SERVICES CORPORATION.  SUCH  TUITION  AWARD
   10  MAY  BE  APPLIED  TO ANY COLLEGE, COMMUNITY COLLEGE, STATE UNIVERSITY OF
   11  NEW YORK, OR THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
   12    2. AMOUNT. THE TUITION AWARD SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE COST OF UNDERGRADU-
   13  ATE TUITION, OFFSET BY ANY OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OR AWARD RECEIVED.
   14  IF A TUITION ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  (TAP)  AWARD  IS  ALSO  RECEIVED,  THE
   15  COMBINED ACADEMIC YEAR AWARD SHALL NOT EXCEED TUITION.
   16    3.  DURATION.  (A)  NO RECIPIENT OF A TUITION AWARD UNDER THIS SECTION
   17  SHALL RECEIVE A TUITION AWARD FOR MORE THAN EIGHT SEMESTERS OF FULL TIME
   18  UNDERGRADUATE STUDY, OR THE EQUIVALENT OF FOUR ACADEMIC YEARS, OR, IF AN
   19  UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM NORMALLY REQUIRES FIVE ACADEMIC YEARS OF FULL TIME
   20  STUDY, FOR MORE THAN TEN SEMESTERS OF FULL TIME STUDY, OR THE EQUIVALENT
   21  OF FIVE ACADEMIC YEARS. "FULL TIME STUDY" SHALL MEAN ENROLLMENT FOR MORE
   22  THAN TWELVE SEMESTER HOURS  PER  SEMESTER,  OR  THE  EQUIVALENT,  IN  AN
   23  APPROVED UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00732-01-9
       S. 2944                             2
    1    (B) NO RECIPIENT OF A TUITION AWARD UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL RECEIVE A
    2  TUITION AWARD FOR MORE THAN SIXTEEN SEMESTERS OF PART TIME UNDERGRADUATE
    3  STUDY, OR THE EQUIVALENT OF EIGHT ACADEMIC YEARS OF PART TIME STUDY, OR,
    4  IF  AN  UNDERGRADUATE  PROGRAM  NORMALLY REQUIRES FIVE ACADEMIC YEARS OF
    5  FULL  TIME  STUDY, FOR MORE THAN TWENTY SEMESTERS OF PART TIME STUDY, OR
    6  THE EQUIVALENT OF TEN ACADEMIC  YEARS.  "PART  TIME  STUDY"  SHALL  MEAN
    7  ENROLLMENT  FOR  AT  LEAST THREE BUT LESS THAN TWELVE SEMESTER HOURS PER
    8  SEMESTER, OR THE EQUIVALENT, IN AN APPROVED UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM.
    9    4. APPLICABILITY OF AWARDS. TUITION AWARDS PROVIDED UNDER THIS SECTION
   10  SHALL ONLY BE AVAILABLE WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK  UNIVERSITY  SYSTEM
   11  OR THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
   12    S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
   13  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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