Senate Bill S8356

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands the New York opportunity promise scholarship to include all SUNY and CUNY approved programs which award certain associate's degrees

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S8356 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8704
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6311, Ed L

2025-S8356 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the New York opportunity promise scholarship to include all SUNY AND CUNY approved programs which award certain associate's degrees.

2025-S8356 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8356 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8356
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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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