Bill Text: NY S07713 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 7713

Bill Title: Prohibits the higher education services corporation from seeking recovery of awards made in error during certain academic years due to administrative error.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - referred to ways and means [S07713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07713-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7713--B
            Cal. No. 1207

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  STAVISKY,  FERNANDEZ,  GOUNARDES, JACKSON -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education
          in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- reported favorably from said committee  and  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Finance -- committee discharged and said bill committed
          to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading,  amended  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT in relation to recovery for certain overpayments

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contra-
     2  ry, the higher education services corporation shall  not  seek  recovery
     3  for overpayment where, through administrative error by such corporation,
     4  a  student  was  incorrectly granted exclusion of parental income with a
     5  dependent for the 2021--2022, 2022--2023, or 2023--2024  academic  years
     6  for  the  purposes of determining eligibility pursuant to section 667 of
     7  the education law.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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