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Assembly Bill A4131

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Conforms the New York state college choice tuition savings program to the federal qualified tuition program

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2025-A4131 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7206
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §695-b, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7782
2019-2020: S3174
2021-2022: S6097
2023-2024: A9203, S6000

2025-A4131 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Conforms the New York state college choice tuition savings program to the federal qualified tuition program so as to include savings for grades kindergarten through 12.

2025-A4131 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4131
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to conforming the New
   York state college choice  tuition  savings  program  to  federal  law
   relating to qualified tuition programs

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 695-b of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  section  1  of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   5. "Eligible educational institution" shall mean (a) [any  institution
 of  higher  education defined as] an eligible educational institution AS
 DEFINED in section 529(e)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code  of  1986,  as
 amended,   or  (b)  any  apprenticeship  program  described  in  section
 529(c)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03651-01-5

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