S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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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
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