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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  eligibility  for
   tuition  assistance program awards for certain undergraduates who must
   transfer to another institution as a result  of  a  permanent  college
   closure

   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  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  400  of  the  laws  of 2018, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. Duration. No undergraduate shall be eligible  for  more  than  four
 academic  years of study, or five academic years if the program of study
 normally requires five years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial
 study, approved by the commissioner in an institution of  higher  educa-
 tion and intended to culminate in a degree in undergraduate study shall,
 for  purposes of this section, be considered as enrolled in a program of
 study normally requiring five years. An undergraduate  student  enrolled
 in  an  eligible  two year program of study approved by the commissioner
 shall be eligible for no more than three academic  years  of  study.  An
 undergraduate  student  enrolled in an approved two or four-year program
 of study approved by the  commissioner  who  must  transfer  to  another
 institution  as  a result of permanent college closure shall be eligible
 for UP TO two additional semesters, or their equivalent, [as  determined
 by  the  commissioner,  in  order to complete his or her program] TO THE
 EXTENT CREDITS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE HIS OR HER PROGRAM  OF  STUDY  WERE
 DEEMED  NON-TRANSFERABLE  FROM THE CLOSED INSTITUTION OR WERE DEEMED NOT
 APPLICABLE TO SUCH STUDENT'S PROGRAM OF STUDY BY  THE  NEW  INSTITUTION.
 Any  semester,  quarter,  or  term  of attendance during which a student
 receives any award under this article, after the effective date  of  the
 former  scholar  incentive  program  and prior to academic year nineteen
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 hundred eighty-nine--nineteen hundred ninety, shall  be  counted  toward
 the  maximum  term  of  eligibility  for  tuition  assistance under this
 section, except that any semester, quarter or term of attendance  during
 which  a  student  received  an  award  pursuant  to section six hundred
 sixty-six of this subpart shall be counted as one-half  of  a  semester,
 quarter  or  term, as the case may be, toward the maximum term of eligi-
 bility under this section. Any semester, quarter or term  of  attendance
 during which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
 sixty-seven-a  of  this  subpart shall not be counted toward the maximum
 term of eligibility under this section.
   § 2. The higher education services corporation and the  department  of
 education  are  authorized  to promulgate rules and regulations, and may
 promulgate emergency regulations, necessary for  the  implementation  of
 the provisions of this act.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 have been in full force and effect on the same date as  chapter  400  of
 the laws of 2018 took effect.