Senate Bill S347

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the maximum years of study under the tuition assistance program

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S347 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1179
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S5692, A7323

2023-S347 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the maximum time limits for tuition assistance program awards.

2023-S347 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S347 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    347
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 permitting tuition
   assistance program awards for an aggregate six years of study

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  667 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 376 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  Duration.  No undergraduate shall be eligible for more than [four]
 SIX academic years of study IN THE AGGREGATE, or [five]  SEVEN  academic
 years  IN  THE  AGGREGATE if the program of study normally requires five
 years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial study, approved by the
 commissioner in an institution  of  higher  education  and  intended  to
 culminate in a degree in undergraduate study shall, for purposes of this
 section,  be  considered  as  enrolled  in  a  program of study normally
 requiring five years. An undergraduate student enrolled in  an  eligible
 two year program of study approved by the commissioner shall be eligible
 for  no more than [three] FOUR academic years of study IN THE AGGREGATE.
 An undergraduate student  enrolled  in  an  approved  two  or  four-year
 program  of  study  approved  by  the  commissioner who must transfer to
 another institution as a result of permanent college  closure  shall  be
 eligible for up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, to the
 extent  credits  necessary  to complete his or her program of study were
 deemed non-transferable from the closed institution or were  deemed  not
 applicable  to  such  student's program of study by the new institution.
 Any semester, quarter, or term of  attendance  during  which  a  student
 receives  any  award under this article, after the effective date of the
 former scholar incentive program and prior  to  academic  year  nineteen
 hundred  eighty-nine--nineteen  hundred  ninety, shall be counted toward
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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