S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8843
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the qualification of
an applicant for the New York opportunity promise scholarship
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) 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, are 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, in an
approved program directly leading to an associate's degree OR CERTIF-
ICATE in a high-demand field; provided that for the two thousand twen-
ty-five -- two thousand twenty-six academic year, such fields shall
include but not be limited to advanced manufacturing, 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
community colleges, and provided further that the eligibility of such
approved program established in the semester for which the applicant
makes initial application shall continue; AND
(d) is eligible for the payment of tuition and fees at a rate no
greater than that imposed for resident students in community colleges[;
and
(e) has not already obtained any postsecondary degree, provided that
nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit the eligibility
of a student who is already enrolled in an eligible associate degree
program on the effective date of this section and who meets all the
other eligibility requirements of this subdivision].
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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