NY State Senate Bill S784

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Jan 09, 2019	referred to higher education

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S784 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §679-g, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S7493
2017-2018: S2692
2021-2022: S1470

S784 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to establishing additional loan forgiveness benefits; negative population growth.

S784 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S784

SPONSOR: BRESLIN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to establishing addi-
tional loan forgiveness benefits

 
PURPOSE:

Establishes an additional twenty-four months of loan forgiveness bene-
fits under the Get on Your Feet Loan Forgiveness program for applicants
living in New York State counties experiencing net population loss to
provide an incentive to college graduates to locate in these areas

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends Section 679-g of the Education Law to extend the Get on
Your Feet Loan Forgiveness Program for an additional twenty-four months
for graduates residing in counties in New York State experiencing net
population loss. The extension provides an additional twenty-four months

(beyond the existing twenty-four months) of repayment eligibility for
applicants to the Get on Your Feet Loan Forgiveness Program who reside
in New York State counties that have suffered population loss from the
2000 decennial census to the present.

Section 2 establishes an effective date.

 
EXISTING LAW:

Section 679-g.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Formerly industrial cities nationwide face higher residential vacancy
rates and declining populations, even as other cities are seeing popu-
lation increases.(1) With its history of industrial strength, the situ-
ation in upstate New York reflects this trend. Upstate localities are
losing population, especially younger and working-age residents.(2)

Twenty-eight upstate counties have suffered population loss since the
2000 decennial census, ranging from Greene County in the Hudson Valley,
which has seen a relatively small decline of .04%, to Hamilton County in
the State's North Country, which has seen a decline of over 12% during
the same period.(3)

This bill seeks to address this problem by providing extra loan forgive-
ness benefits to college graduates who elect to reside in counties expe-
riencing net population loss. The Get on Your Feet Loan Forgiveness
Program was established in 2015 to provide loan repayment assistance to
New York college graduates.(4) Under this bill, applicants eligible for
the Get on Your Feet Loan Forgiveness Program who reside in such a coun-
ty that has experienced net population loss from 2010 to the present
would be eligible for an additional twenty-four months of loan repayment
assistance - double the what is offered under the existing program. This
additional benefit is designed to provide an incentive to college gradu-
ates to stay in or move to these counties and provide extra support to
these graduates who may be earning less than they would if they had
chosen to locate in a different area.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-18: S.2692 Referred to Higher Education

2015-16: S.7493 Referred to Higher Education

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
(1) See Vey, J., The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program,
Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America's Older
Industrial Cities (2007) at 25.
(2) McMahon, E.J. "The Graying of the Empire State." Empire Center.
8/16/2012; Ellis, K. "Panel examines New York's 'rural brain drain."
4/19/2011; Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "Upstate at a Glance."
December 2007.
(3) U.S. Bureau of the Census.
(4) Education Law Section 679-g.

S784 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                   784

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. BRESLIN, KENNEDY -- 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  establishing  addi-
  tional loan forgiveness benefits

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

  Section 1. Section 679-g of the education law is amended by  adding  a
new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
  5.  ADDITIONAL  LOAN  FORGIVENESS  BENEFITS.  (A)  PAYMENTS UNDER THIS
PROGRAM SHALL BE AVAILABLE FOR  AN  ADDITIONAL  TWENTY-FOUR  MONTHS  FOR
APPLICANTS  RESIDING  IN  COUNTIES  IN  THIS STATE THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED
NEGATIVE POPULATION GROWTH FROM JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND,  TO  THE
LATEST  AVAILABLE ANNUAL ESTIMATES OF THE RESIDENT POPULATION. A RECIPI-
ENT WHO IS NOT A RESIDENT OF SUCH A COUNTY AT  THE  TIME  AN  ADDITIONAL
PAYMENT  IS MADE UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE REQUIRED TO REFUND SUCH
PAYMENTS TO THE STATE. THE CORPORATION SHALL BE  AUTHORIZED  TO  RECOVER
SUCH  PAYMENTS  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY
THE CORPORATION.
  (B) ANY COUNTY THAT  EXPERIENCES  TWENTY-FOUR  CONSECUTIVE  MONTHS  OF
POPULATION GROWTH AS DETERMINED BY THE LATEST AVAILABLE ANNUAL ESTIMATES
OF  RESIDENT  POPULATION BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF THE CENSUS SHALL
BE INELIGIBLE FOR THE ADDITIONAL BENEFITS DESCRIBED UNDER PARAGRAPH  (A)
OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  UNLESS  AND  UNTIL  SUCH  COUNTY EXPERIENCES SIX
CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF POPULATION DECLINE.
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05934-01-9

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