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Senate Bill S5293

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to state appropriations for increases in tuition credit

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2019-S5293 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A720
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§355 & 6206, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8842, A10883
2021-2022: A5474

2019-S5293 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the state to appropriate general fund operating support to cover any increase in tuition credit.

2019-S5293 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5293 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5293
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 23, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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  state  appropriations
   for increases in tuition credit
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2  of  section
 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (vii) to read
 as follows:
   (VII) BEGINNING IN STATE FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY--TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-ONE  AND  THEREAFTER, THE STATE SHALL APPROPRIATE AND MAKE AVAIL-
 ABLE GENERAL FUND OPERATING SUPPORT TO COVER ANY INCREASE IN THE TUITION
 CREDIT PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE-A OF THIS TITLE ANNU-
 ALLY.
   § 2. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355  of
 the  education  law is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read
 as follows:
    BEGINNING IN STATE FISCAL  YEAR  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY--TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-ONE  AND  THEREAFTER, THE STATE SHALL APPROPRIATE AND MAKE AVAIL-
 ABLE GENERAL FUND OPERATING SUPPORT TO COVER ANY INCREASE IN THE TUITION
 CREDIT PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE-A OF THIS TITLE ANNU-
 ALLY.
   § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of  the  education
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
   (VI)  BEGINNING IN STATE FISCAL YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY--TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-ONE AND THEREAFTER, THE STATE SHALL APPROPRIATE AND  MAKE  AVAIL-
 ABLE GENERAL FUND OPERATING SUPPORT TO COVER ANY INCREASE IN THE TUITION
 CREDIT  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE-A OF THIS CHAPTER
 ANNUALLY.
   § 4. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of  the  education
 law is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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