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Assembly Bill A7311

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Increases the total funding of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty scholarship program and provides for increased awards

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2021-A7311 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §679-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A3372
2025-2026: A4589

2021-A7311 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the total funding of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty scholarship program to five million dollars annually; permits awards covering the total cost of a recipient's academic program.

2021-A7311 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7311
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the total
   funding of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing  faculty  scholarship
   program and providing for increased awards

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 3 of section 679-c of the
 education law, as amended by section 1 of part E3 of chapter 57  of  the
 laws of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
   a.  equal  to  the  [tuition]  TOTAL  COST  charged  to state resident
 students attending a master's degree  program  in  nursing  or  doctoral
 degree  program  that  will  qualify  them as nursing faculty or adjunct
 clinical faculty at the state  university  of  New  York[;  the  average
 mandatory fees charged at the state university of New York, or the actu-
 al tuition and fees charged to the recipient, whichever is less; and the
 average non-tuition cost of attendance, as determined by the corporation
 and  as  approved  by  the  director of the budget, for a student at the
 state university of New York or actual non-tuition cost of attendance at
 such institution, whichever is  less],  provided  that  the  scholarship
 shall not exceed an amount that is equal to the total cost of attendance
 determined  for  federal  Title IV student financial aid purposes[, less
 all other scholarships and grants provided  by  New  York  state,  other
 states,  the federal government, or other governments, and the amount of
 educational benefits paid under any program  that  would  duplicate  the
 purposes  of  this  program,  provided  that  any scholarships or grants
 provided to a recipient by the institution which are  intended  to  fund
 any  portion  of  the  difference between the annual state award and the
 actual costs of attendance at any such institution shall not be  consid-
 ered to duplicate the purposes of this program].
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10846-01-1

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