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Senate Bill S7492

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to part-time tuition assistance program awards

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2015-S7492 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง667-c, Ed L

2015-S7492 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to part-time tuition assistance program awards.

2015-S7492 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7492 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7492

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 5, 2016
                               ___________

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  part-time  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 2 of section 667-c of  the  education  law,  as
added  by  section  1  of  part  N of chapter 58 of the laws of 2006, is
amended to read as follows:
  2. For purposes of this section, a part-time student is one who:
  a. enrolled as a first-time freshman during the two thousand  six--two
thousand  seven  academic  year or thereafter at a college or university
within the state university, including a statutory or contract  college,
a  community college established pursuant to article one hundred twenty-
six of this chapter, the city university of New York,  or  a  non-profit
college or university incorporated by the regents or by the legislature;
  b.  [has  earned  at  least  twelve credits in each of two consecutive
semesters at one of the institutions named in paragraph a of this subdi-
vision by the time of the awards;
  c.] is enrolled for at least six but less than twelve semester  hours,
or  the  equivalent,  per  semester  in an approved undergraduate degree
program; and
  [d] C.  has a cumulative grade-point average of at least 2.00.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15198-01-6

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