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                                   8704
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 30, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. LUCAS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding the New York
   opportunity promise scholarship to include all state university of New
   York or city university of New  York  approved  programs  which  award
   certain associate's degrees

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision  1  of  section  6311  of  the
 education law, as added by section 1 of part F of chapter 56 of the laws
 of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) is matriculated at [a community college of the state university of
 New  York  or the city university of New York, as defined in subdivision
 two of section sixty-three hundred one of this  article  or  subdivision
 four  of section sixty-two hundred two of this title, respectively,] ANY
 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK OR CITY UNIVERSITY OF  NEW  YORK  COLLEGES,
 UNIVERSITIES,  OR  COMMUNITY  COLLEGES  in  an approved program directly
 leading to an associate's degree in a high-demand field;  provided  that
 for  the  two  thousand  twenty-five -- two thousand twenty-six academic
 year, such fields shall include but not be limited to advanced  manufac-
 turing, technology, cybersecurity, engineering, artificial intelligence,
 nursing  and  allied health professions, green and renewable energy, and
 pathways to teaching in  shortage  areas,  provided  further  that  such
 fields  may be updated annually thereafter by the department of labor no
 later than one hundred eighty days prior to the first start date of  the
 fall term of such STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK OR CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW
 YORK  COLLEGES,  UNIVERSITIES,  OR  community  colleges[,]; and provided
 further that the eligibility of such approved program established in the
 semester for which the applicant makes initial application shall contin-
 ue;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13037-03-5