Senate Bill S1385

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the part-time tuition assistance program

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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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2021-S1385 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6227
2019-2020: S1638

2021-S1385 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the part-time tuition assistance program; provides that the total amount of funds awarded shall not exceed the total amount available to the traditional full-time student.

2021-S1385 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1385 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1385
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- 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 the part-time  tuition
   assistance program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 667-c of the education law, as added by  section  1
 of  part  N  of  chapter  58  of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 667-c. Part-time tuition assistance program  awards.    1.  Notwith-
 standing  any  law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the president of
 the higher education services corporation is authorized to make  tuition
 assistance program awards to [part-time] students [enrolled at the state
 university,  a community college, the city university of New York, and a
 non-profit college or university incorporated by the regents or  by  the
 legislature  who  meet  all  requirements for tuition assistance program
 awards except for the students' part-time attendance] WHO ATTEND  A  NEW
 YORK  STATE  PUBLIC  INSTITUTION  OF  HIGHER  EDUCATION  OR A NON-PROFIT
 COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED BY THE REGENTS OR BY THE  LEGISLATURE
 ON A PART-TIME BASIS.
   2. [For purposes of this section, a part-time student is one who:
   a.  enrolled as a first-time freshman during the two thousand six--two
 thousand seven academic year or thereafter at a  college  or  university
 within  the state university, including a statutory or contract college,
 a community college established pursuant to article one hundred  twenty-
 six  of  this  chapter, the city university of New York, or a non-profit
 college or university incorporated by the regents or by the legislature;
   b. has earned at least twelve  credits  in  each  of  two  consecutive
 semesters at one of the institutions named in paragraph a of this subdi-
 vision by the time of the awards;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02234-02-1
              

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