S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4589
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the total
awards of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty scholarship
program
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 679-c of the educa-
tion law, as amended by section 1 of part E3 of chapter 57 of the laws
of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
a. equal to the [tuition] TOTAL COST charged to state resident
students attending a master's degree program in nursing or doctoral
degree program that will qualify them as nursing faculty or adjunct
clinical faculty at the state university of New York[; the average
mandatory fees charged at the state university of New York, or the actu-
al tuition and fees charged to the recipient, whichever is less; and the
average non-tuition cost of attendance, as determined by the corporation
and as approved by the director of the budget, for a student at the
state university of New York or actual non-tuition cost of attendance at
such institution, whichever is less], provided that the scholarship
shall not exceed an amount that is equal to the total cost of attendance
determined for federal Title IV student financial aid purposes[, less
all other scholarships and grants provided by New York state, other
states, the federal government, or other governments, and the amount of
educational benefits paid under any program that would duplicate the
purposes of this program, provided that any scholarships or grants
provided to a recipient by the institution which are intended to fund
any portion of the difference between the annual state award and the
actual costs of attendance at any such institution shall not be consid-
ered to duplicate the purposes of this program].
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07693-01-5
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