Assembly Bill A508

                             
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                                    508
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. ANDERSON, CRUZ, FORREST, KELLES -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  permitting  tuition
   assistance program awards for an aggregate six years of study

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section  667  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  376  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. Duration. No undergraduate shall be eligible for more  than  [four]
 SIX  academic  years of study IN THE AGGREGATE, or [five] SEVEN academic
 years IN THE AGGREGATE if the program of study  normally  requires  five
 years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial study, approved by the
 commissioner  in  an  institution  of  higher  education and intended to
 culminate in a degree in undergraduate study shall, for purposes of this
 section, be considered as  enrolled  in  a  program  of  study  normally
 requiring  five  years. An undergraduate student enrolled in an eligible
 two year program of study approved by the commissioner shall be eligible
 for no more than [three] FOUR academic years of study IN THE  AGGREGATE.
 An  undergraduate  student  enrolled  in  an  approved  two or four-year
 program of study approved by  the  commissioner  who  must  transfer  to
 another  institution  as  a result of permanent college closure shall be
 eligible for up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, to the
 extent credits necessary to complete [his or her] SUCH program of  study
 were  deemed non-transferable from the closed institution or were deemed
 not applicable to such student's program of study by  the  new  institu-
 tion.    Any  semester,  quarter,  or  term of attendance during which a
 student receives any award under this article, after the effective  date
 of the former scholar incentive program and prior to academic year nine-
 teen  hundred  eighty-nine--nineteen  hundred  ninety,  shall be counted
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 toward the maximum term of eligibility for tuition assistance under this
 section, except that any semester, quarter or term of attendance  during
 which  a  student  received  an  award  pursuant  to section six hundred
 sixty-six  of  this  subpart shall be counted as one-half of a semester,
 quarter or term, as the case may be, toward the maximum term  of  eligi-
 bility  under  this section. Any semester, quarter or term of attendance
 during which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
 sixty-seven-a of this subpart shall not be counted  toward  the  maximum
 term of eligibility under this section.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.