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Assembly Bill A355

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to student financial aid programs

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2023-A355 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1122
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §605, add Art 14 Part 2 Subpart 4 §679-k, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7842
2017-2018: A2263
2019-2020: A1178
2021-2022: A1215, S6458
2025-2026: A3276, S7372

2023-A355 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to student financial aid programs; allows absence because of uniformed service, maternity/paternity, FMLA, or due to compensable injury to be creditable time.

2023-A355 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    355
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BRONSON, LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student financial  aid
   programs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 9 of  section  605  of  the  education  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
   G.  A  PERIOD OF LEAVE WITHOUT PAY, OR OTHER PERIODS WHICH AN ELIGIBLE
 APPLICANT IS NOT IN A PAY STATUS SHALL NOT COUNT TOWARD  THE  COMPLETION
 OF THE REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD REEMPLOYMENT. THE SERVICE COMPLETION DATE
 SHALL    BE EXTENDED BY THE TOTAL TIME SPENT IN NON-PAY STATUS. HOWEVER,
 ABSENCE BECAUSE OF UNIFORMED SERVICE WITH A  RECOGNIZED  BRANCH  OF  THE
 UNITED  STATES MILITARY, AUTHORIZED MATERNITY/PATERNITY, FMLA, OR DUE TO
 COMPENSABLE INJURY SHALL  BE  CONSIDERED  CREDITABLE,  WITHIN  THE  SOLE
 DISCRETION OF THE PRESIDENT, TOWARD THE REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD OF REEM-
 PLOYMENT.
   § 2. Subpart 4 of part 2 of article 14 of the education law is amended
 by adding a new section 679-k to read as follows:
   §  679-K.  LOAN  FORGIVENESS  ELIGIBILITY.  FOR  ALL  LOAN FORGIVENESS
 PROGRAMS REFERENCED IN THIS SUBPART, A PERIOD OF LEAVE WITHOUT  PAY,  OR
 OTHER  PERIODS  WHICH AN ELIGIBLE APPLICANT IS NOT IN A PAY STATUS SHALL
 NOT COUNT TOWARD THE COMPLETION OF THE REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD REEMPLOY-
 MENT. THE SERVICE COMPLETION DATE SHALL BE EXTENDED BY  THE  TOTAL  TIME
 SPENT  IN  NON-PAY STATUS. HOWEVER, ABSENCE BECAUSE OF UNIFORMED SERVICE
 WITH A RECOGNIZED BRANCH  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  MILITARY,  AUTHORIZED
 MATERNITY/PATERNITY, FMLA, OR DUE TO COMPENSABLE INJURY SHALL BE CONSID-
 ERED CREDITABLE, WITHIN THE SOLE DISCRETION OF THE PRESIDENT, TOWARD THE
 REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD OF REEMPLOYMENT.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2010.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01580-01-3

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