Senate Bill S130

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allows disabled students to increase duration limits for student financial aid awards

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Archive: Last 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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2019-S130 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §661, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5119
2017-2018: S1171
2021-2022: S4533

2019-S130 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows disabled students to increase duration limits for student financial aid awards.

2019-S130 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S130 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    130
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to disabled students
   seeking to increase duration limits for student financial aid awards

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph g of subdivision 4 of section 661 of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by section 1 of part Z of chapter 58 of the laws of
 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   g. For students who are disabled as  defined  by  the  Americans  With
 [Disability]  DISABILITIES  Act  of  1990,  42  USC 12101, the full-time
 attendance requirement is eliminated AND THE DURATION LIMIT, AS PROVIDED
 IN SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN OF THIS PART, MAY BE INCREASED UP  TO
 A  PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED SIX YEARS AS APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER.  Such
 disabled students may be in part-time  attendance,  as  defined  by  the
 commissioner in order to be eligible to receive payments from the presi-
 dent.    THE  DISABLED  STUDENT SEEKING ASSISTANCE FOR A DURATION PERIOD
 LONGER THAN ALLOWABLE BY LAW MUST DEMONSTRATE TO THE  COMMISSIONER  THAT
 THEIR DISABILITY PREVENTED THE COMPLETION OF THE ENROLLED PROGRAM WITHIN
 THE MAXIMUM AWARD PERIOD.
   § 2. The commissioner of education shall have the authority to promul-
 gate  rules  and regulations as necessary to implement the provisions of
 this act.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05285-01-9

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