Bill Text: NY S07916 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-04 - referred to higher education [S07916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07916-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7916--B

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  STAVISKY,  GAUGHRAN, KAMINSKY, MANNION, RIVERA --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --  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,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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)  Except for students as noted in subparagraph (iii) of this para-
     5  graph, the base amount as determined from subparagraph (i) of this para-
     6  graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:

     7  Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
     8                                      of base amount

     9  (A) Less than seven thousand        None
    10      dollars
    11  (B) Seven thousand dollars or       Seven per centum of excess
    12      more, but less than eleven      over seven thousand dollars
    13      thousand dollars
    14  (C) Eleven thousand dollars or      Two hundred eighty dollars
    15      more, but less than eighteen    plus ten per centum of excess
    16      thousand dollars                over eleven thousand dollars
    17  (D) Eighteen thousand dollars or    Nine hundred eighty dollars
    18      more, but not more than [eighty]plus twelve per centum of
    19      one hundred ten                 excess over eighteen
    20      thousand dollars                 thousand dollars
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2023.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14368-05-2
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