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Assembly Bill A2712

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for determining the amount of an award under the tuition assistance program for certain people returning to full-time undergraduate study

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2009-A2712 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3605
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง667, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3361
2013-2014: A3411

2009-A2712 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that for purposes of the amount of an award under the tuition assistance program, any student who received an award for not more than two semesters prior to the 1989-1990 academic year and who returns to full-time undergraduate study shall be deemed to have received his or her first award in the academic year in which he or she returns to full-time study.

2009-A2712 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2712

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. GLICK, CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  DINOWITZ, ORTIZ, SWEENEY, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to  the
  Committee on Higher Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to tuition assistance
  program awards

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  667  of the education law is
amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
  E. DETERMINATION OF AWARD. FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING  THE  AMOUNT
OF  AN AWARD, ANY STUDENT WHO RECEIVED AN AWARD PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION
FOR  NOT  MORE  THAN  TWO  SEMESTERS  PRIOR  TO  THE  NINETEEN   HUNDRED
EIGHTY-NINE--NINETEEN  HUNDRED  NINETY  ACADEMIC YEAR AND WHO RETURNS TO
FULL-TIME UNDERGRADUATE STUDY SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE  RECEIVED  HIS  OR
HER  FIRST  AWARD  IN  THE  ACADEMIC  YEAR IN WHICH HE OR SHE RETURNS TO
FULL-TIME STUDY. APPLICATION OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL HAVE NO  EFFECT  ON
THE DURATION OF AWARD PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04530-01-9

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