Bill Text: NY S05717 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program to $110,000 or the regional median income, whichever is greater; provides regional median income shall be determined by economic development region.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S05717 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05717-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5717

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 15, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURRAY -- 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 increasing the  income
          eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (ii)  of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section  667  of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of
     3  chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ii) (A) Except for students as noted in subparagraph  (iii)  of  this
     5  paragraph,  the  base amount as determined from subparagraph (i) of this
     6  paragraph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:

     7  Amount of income                     Schedule of reduction
     8                                       of base amount

     9  [(A)] (1) Less than seven thousand   None
    10      dollars
    11  [(B)] (2) Seven thousand dollars     Seven per centum of excess
    12      or more, but less than eleven    over seven thousand dollars
    13      thousand dollars
    14  [(C)] (3) Eleven thousand dollars    Two hundred eighty dollars
    15      or more, but less than eighteen  plus ten per centum of excess
    16      thousand dollars                 over eleven thousand dollars
    17  [(D)] (4) Eighteen thousand dollars  Nine hundred eighty dollar
    18      or more, but not more than       plus twelve per centum of
    19      [eighty] one hundred ten         excess over eighteen
    20      thousand dollars or, the         thousand dollars
    21      the regional median income,
    22      whichever is greater

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10105-01-3
        S. 5717                             2

     1    (B) (1) For the purposes of this subparagraph, regional median  income
     2  shall  mean  the  median  household  income  of  an economic development
     3  region.  To determine such regional median income, the median  household
     4  income  of  each  county  within an economic development region shall be
     5  averaged.  Such  median household income data shall be based on the U.S.
     6  Census Data reports of median income data as  based  on  the  five  most
     7  recent  years of median incomes as reported to the U.S. Census Bureau by
     8  each county.
     9    (2) For the purposes of this subparagraph, economic development region
    10  shall include the same areas as described in subdivision (j) of  section
    11  4211.2 of title twenty-one of the New York codes, rules and regulations.
    12    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of June next succeeding
    13  the date on which it shall have become a law.