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Senate Bill S9105

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Removes minimum year requirements for attendance at a New York high school when determining eligibility for certain student loans

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2025-S9105 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10870
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §661, Ed L

2025-S9105 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes two year minimum attendance requirement at a New York high school when determining eligibility for certain student loans.

2025-S9105 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9105 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9105
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to removing minimum year
   requirements for attendance at a New York high school when determining
   eligibility for certain student loans
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Clause (a) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a and clause
 (a) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section  661
 of  the education law, as amended by chapter 26 of the laws of 2019, are
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) attended a registered New York state high school [for two or  more
 years],  graduated  from  a  registered  New  York state high school and
 applied for attendance at the institution of higher  education  for  the
 undergraduate  study  for  which an award is sought within five years of
 receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
   (a) attended a registered approved New York state high school [for two
 or more years], graduated from a registered New York state  high  school
 and  applied  for  attendance at the institution of higher education for
 the graduate study for which an award is  sought  within  ten  years  of
 receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13481-01-5

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