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Senate Bill S7682

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to tuition assistance program awards

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2023-S7682 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6713
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667, Ed L

2023-S7682 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the amount of income eligible for income base reductions in certain tuition assistance program awards for students who have been granted exclusion of parental income and are single with no dependent, or who have a spouse but no other dependent, for income tax purposes.

2023-S7682 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7682 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7682
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              October 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  tuition  assistance
   program awards
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of
 section  667  of the education law, as amended by section 3 of part H of
 chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii) (A) For students who have been  granted  exclusion  of  parental
 income  and were single with no dependent for income tax purposes during
 the tax year next preceding the academic year for which  application  is
 made,  the  base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of this para-
 graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
 
 Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
                                     of base amount
 
 (1) Less than three thousand        None
     dollars
 (2) Three thousand dollars or       Thirty-one per centum of
     more, but not more than         amount in excess of three
     [ten] THIRTY thousand           thousand dollars
     dollars
 
   (B) For those students who have been  granted  exclusion  of  parental
 income who have a spouse but no other dependent, for income tax purposes
 during  the tax year next preceding the academic year for which applica-
 tion is made, the base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of this
 paragraph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10027-02-3
 S. 7682                             2

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