Bill Text: NY S06440 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a service corps education grant to be used for tuition costs or loan repayment; and provides for funding for the service corps education grant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S06440 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06440-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6440
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 19, 2017
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        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 establishing a service
          corps education grant to be used for tuition costs or loan  repayment;
          and to amend the executive law, in relation to funding for the service
          corps education grant
          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  683-C
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  683-C. Tuition or loan repayment for fellowship programs. 1.  Indi-
     4  viduals serving in the  New  York  state  conservation  corps  positions
     5  provided by section 3.23 of the parks, recreation and historic preserva-
     6  tion law or any position otherwise deemed as a public service fellowship
     7  attained  upon  graduation  by the corporation, shall be eligible for an
     8  education grant to be used for either tuition costs at  eligible  insti-
     9  tutions  of  higher  education or loan repayment that is at least equiv-
    10  alent to the  Segal  education  award  available  under  the  Americorps
    11  program  as  of October first, two thousand sixteen based on duration of
    12  service.
    13    2. The corporation shall promulgate rules  and  regulations  necessary
    14  for the implementation of this section.
    15    §  2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 184 to read
    16  as follows:
    17    § 184. Replacement of funds for Americorps or fellowship programs.  In
    18  the event that the federal budget or continuing resolutions in force for
    19  federal fiscal years two thousand seventeen or two thousand eighteen, or
    20  both,  or federal statutory or regulatory changes, reduce federal finan-
    21  cial participation or other federal aid in funding  to  New  York  state
    22  that  affects  the state operating funds for the Americorps Segal educa-
    23  tion award or other post-graduate fellowship or service  corps  programs
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11839-01-7
        S. 6440                             2
     1  funded in part or entirely by federal dollars, the director of the divi-
     2  sion  of  the  budget shall notify the temporary president of the senate
     3  and speaker of the assembly in writing that  the  federal  actions  will
     4  reduce  expected funding to New York state. The director of the division
     5  of the budget shall then authorize a suballocation or transfer of  funds
     6  to meet the obligations imposed by section six hundred eighty-three-C of
     7  the  education law and shall submit a plan to the legislature describing
     8  the nature of the suballocations. The legislature shall have ninety days
     9  after such submission to either prepare its own plan that provides for a
    10  replacement of such funds, which may be adopted by concurrent resolution
    11  passed by both houses, or if after ninety days the legislature fails  to
    12  adopt  their own plan, the plan proposed by the director of the division
    13  of the budget will go into effect automatically.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.