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                        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.
 
              

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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