Bill Text: NY S05293 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the state to appropriate general fund operating support to cover any increase in tuition credit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S05293 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05293-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5293 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 23, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 state appropriations for increases in tuition credit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 2 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (vii) to read 3 as follows: 4 (vii) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand 5 twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make avail- 6 able general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition 7 credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title annu- 8 ally. 9 § 2. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of 10 the education law is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read 11 as follows: 12 Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand 13 twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make avail- 14 able general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition 15 credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title annu- 16 ally. 17 § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education 18 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows: 19 (vi) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand 20 twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make avail- 21 able general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition 22 credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this chapter 23 annually. 24 § 4. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education 25 law is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05693-01-9S. 5293 2 1 Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand 2 twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make avail- 3 able general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition 4 credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this chapter 5 annually. 6 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that 7 the amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of 8 section 355 of the education law made by section one of this act shall 9 not affect the expiration and reversion of such subparagraph pursuant to 10 section 16 of chapter 260 of the laws of 2011, as amended, when upon 11 such date section two of this act shall take effect; and provided, 12 further that the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 13 6206 of the education law made by section three of this act shall not 14 affect the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to 15 section 16 of chapter 260 of the laws of 2011, as amended, when upon 16 such date section four of this act shall take effect.