Assembly Bill A8432

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the criteria for determining tuition assistance program awards

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A8432 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667, Ed L

2023-A8432 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the criteria for determining tuition assistance program awards; provides for the elimination of the distinction between dependent students and independent students for the purpose of determining tuition assistance program award amounts and eligibility.

2023-A8432 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8432
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 29, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  the  criteria  for
   determining tuition assistance program awards
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 667 of the education law, as added
 by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, paragraph a as amended by  section  1
 and  subparagraph  (iv) of paragraph b as amended by section 3 of part B
 of chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, clause (A)  of  subparagraph  (i)  of
 paragraph  a  as  amended by section 1 and subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of
 paragraph b as amended by section 2 of part DD of chapter 56 of the laws
 2021, subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a as amended by section 3 of  part
 H  and paragraph c as relettered by section 2 of part J of chapter 58 of
 the laws of 2011 and paragraph b as amended by chapter 309 of  the  laws
 of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   3. Tuition assistance program awards.
   a.  Amount.  The  president  shall make awards to students enrolled in
 degree-granting  institutions  or  registered  not-for-profit   business
 schools  qualified  for  tax exemption under § 501(c)(3) of the internal
 revenue code for federal income tax purposes in the following amounts:
   (i) For each year of undergraduate study, assistance shall be provided
 as computed on the basis of the  amount  which  is  the  lesser  of  the
 following:
   (A)  [(1)  In the case of students who have not been granted an exclu-
 sion of parental income, who have qualified as an orphan, foster  child,
 or  ward  of the court for the purposes of federal student financial aid
 programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965,  as
 amended,  or had a dependent for income tax purposes during the tax year
 next preceding the academic year for which application is  made,  except

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13836-01-3
 A. 8432                             2
              

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