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Assembly Bill A10870

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Removes minimum year requirements for attendance at a New York high school when determining eligibility for certain student loans

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2025-A10870 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9105
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §661, Ed L

2025-A10870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes two year minimum attendance requirement at a New York high school when determining eligibility for certain student loans.

2025-A10870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10870
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to removing minimum  year
   requirements for attendance at a New York high school when determining
   eligibility for certain student loans
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Clause (a) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a  and  clause
 (a)  of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 661
 of the education law, as amended by chapter 26 of the laws of 2019,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  attended a registered New York state high school [for two or more
 years], graduated from a registered  New  York  state  high  school  and
 applied  for  attendance  at the institution of higher education for the
 undergraduate study for which an award is sought within  five  years  of
 receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
   (a) attended a registered approved New York state high school [for two
 or  more  years], graduated from a registered New York state high school
 and applied for attendance at the institution of  higher  education  for
 the  graduate  study  for  which  an award is sought within ten years of
 receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13481-01-5

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