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Assembly Bill A6016

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers

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2025-A6016 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1113
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §679-k, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8375, S8218

2025-A6016 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers who commit to work in counties with less than two hundred thousand population, or towns which have a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square mile for the duration of the award.

2025-A6016 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6016
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMON,  CLARK,  SANTABARBARA, DE LOS SANTOS,
   KELLES, BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Higher
   Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation to providing loan
   forgiveness for social workers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 679-k
 to read as follows:
   § 679-K. NEW YORK  STATE  SOCIAL  WORKER  LOAN  FORGIVENESS  INCENTIVE
 PROGRAM. 1.  PURPOSE. THE PRESIDENT SHALL GRANT STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS
 AWARDS  FOR  THE  PURPOSE OF ALLEVIATING THE BURDEN OF STUDENT LOAN DEBT
 FOR SOCIAL WORKERS IN NEW YORK STATE. SUCH AWARDS SHALL  BE  MADE  ON  A
 COMPETITIVE  BASIS  AS PROMULGATED BY THE CORPORATION FOR SUCH PURPOSES,
 TO APPLICANTS WHO MEET THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA. SUCH  RULES  AND  REGU-
 LATIONS SHALL INCLUDE PROVISIONS FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF APPLICANTS WHO
 ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.
   2.  ELIGIBILITY. TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN AWARD PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION,
 APPLICANTS SHALL:
   (A) HAVE GRADUATED AND OBTAINED A DEGREE FROM  AN  APPROVED  NEW  YORK
 STATE COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY;
   (B) HAVE AN OUTSTANDING STUDENT LOAN DEBT FROM OBTAINING SUCH DEGREE;
   (C)  BE  EMPLOYED AS A LICENSED MASTER SOCIAL WORKER OR LICENSED CLIN-
 ICAL SOCIAL WORKER IN NEW YORK STATE  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  ARTICLE  ONE
 HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER;
   (D) APPLY FOR THIS PROGRAM WITHIN TWO YEARS OF COLLEGE GRADUATION;
   (E)  COMPLY  WITH  SUBDIVISIONS  THREE AND FIVE OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED
 SIXTY-ONE OF THIS PART; AND
   (F) MAKE A COMMITMENT TO PRACTICE IN  A  COUNTY  WITH  LESS  THAN  TWO
 HUNDRED  THOUSAND POPULATION, OR ANY TOWN WHICH HAS A POPULATION OF LESS

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03637-01-5
 A. 6016                             2

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