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Assembly Bill A11333

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the New York state prepaid college access and affordability act

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2025-A11333 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 129-C §§6450-a - 6450-k, Ed L; add §99-uu, St Fin L

2025-A11333 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "New York state prepaid college access and affordability act" to establish the empire prepaid college program to provide families with affordable, guaranteed tuition plans for New York state public postsecondary institutions; establishes the empire prepaid college fund.

2025-A11333 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11333
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Blumencranz)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to establishing the
   empire prepaid college program to provide  families  with  affordable,
   guaranteed  tuition  plans  for  New  York  state public postsecondary
   institutions; and to amend the  state  finance  law,  in  relation  to
   establishing the empire prepaid college fund
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "New York state prepaid college access and affordability act".
   §  2.  Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature finds that the
 rising cost of higher education places an increasing burden on New  York
 families  and  deters  many  qualified  students from pursuing a college
 degree at our state colleges and universities. New York currently  oper-
 ates  529  college  savings  accounts,  but these plans do not guarantee
 tuition coverage or protect families from future tuition increases.
   The intent of this legislation is to create an empire prepaid  college
 program,  enabling  families  to purchase tuition and housing credits at
 today's rates for future use at in-state public colleges  and  universi-
 ties,  ensuring  predictability,  affordability,  and  access  to higher
 education across the Empire State.
   § 3. The education law is amended by adding a  new  article  129-C  to
 read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 129-C
                      EMPIRE PREPAID COLLEGE PROGRAM
 SECTION 6450-A. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROGRAM.
         6450-B. EMPIRE PREPAID COLLEGE BOARD.
         6450-C. PREPAID TUITION AND HOUSING PLANS.
         6450-D. TRANSFERABILITY AND PORTABILITY.
         6450-E. SCHOLARSHIPS AND UNUSED FUNDS.
         6450-F. STATE PLEDGE.
         6450-G. CONFIDENTIALITY.
         6450-H. REFUNDS AND TERMINATION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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