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Assembly Bill A387

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Raises the minimum tuition assistance program award an eligible graduate student may receive per semester

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2019-A387 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3376
2011-2012: A3003
2013-2014: A3449
2015-2016: A6570
2017-2018: A744

2019-A387 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Raises the minimum tuition assistance program award an eligible graduate student may receive per year to five hundred dollars.

2019-A387 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    387
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,
   PEOPLES-STOKES, RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on High-
   er Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the minimum
   tuition assistance program award for  eligible  graduate  students  to
   five hundred dollars per year
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.   Subparagraph (v) of  paragraph  b  of  subdivision  3  of
 section  667 of the education law, as amended by chapter 309 of the laws
 of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (v) The award shall be the net amount of the  base  amount  determined
 pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of  this  paragraph reduced pursuant to
 subparagraph (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph but the award shall not  be
 reduced  below  [one]  FIVE  hundred  dollars. If the income exceeds the
 maximum amount of income allowable under subparagraph (ii) or  (iii)  of
 this paragraph, no award shall be made.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take effect April 1, 2020, and shall be first
 effective for awards made for the 2020-2021 academic year.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05261-01-9

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