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                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 25, 2011
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Introduced   by   M.   of   A.   GLICK,   CANESTRARI,  WRIGHT,  MILLMAN,
  PEOPLES-STOKES, LUPARDO, NOLAN --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.
  ABBATE,  GALEF, HEASTIE, JAFFEE, LANCMAN, MAGEE, MARKEY, PAULIN, PHEF-
  FER, REILLY, SWEENEY, WEISENBERG -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Higher Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to tuition assistance
  program awards

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph a of subdivi-
sion 3 of section 667 of the education law, as amended by section  1  of
part B of chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  (A) (1) In the case of students who have not been granted an exclusion
of  parental  income,  HAVE BEEN GRANTED AN EXCLUSION OF PARENTAL INCOME
PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF  THIS
PART,  or  had  a  dependent for income tax purposes during the tax year
next preceding the academic year for which application is made:
  (a) For students first receiving aid after  nineteen  hundred  ninety-
three--nineteen  hundred  ninety-four and before two thousand--two thou-
sand one, four thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars; or
  (b) For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-three-
-nineteen hundred ninety-four or earlier, three  thousand  five  hundred
seventy-five dollars; or
  (c)  For students first receiving aid in [the] two thousand--two thou-
sand one and thereafter, five thousand dollars.
  (2) In the case of students receiving awards pursuant to  subparagraph
(iii) of this paragraph.
  (a)  For  students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-four
--nineteen hundred ninety-five and nineteen  hundred  ninety-five--nine-
teen  hundred  ninety-six  and  thereafter,  three  thousand twenty-five
dollars, or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (b) For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred  ninety-two--
nineteen  hundred  ninety-three and nineteen hundred ninety-three--nine-
teen  hundred  ninety-four,  two  thousand  five  hundred   seventy-five
dollars, or
  (c)  For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-one--
nineteen hundred ninety-two or earlier, two thousand four hundred  fifty
dollars; or
  S 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 667
of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 60 of
the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  (iii)  For students who have been granted exclusion of parental income
PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THIS
PART and were single with no dependent for income  tax  purposes  during
the  tax  year next preceding the academic year for which application is
made, the base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of  this  para-
graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:

Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
                                    of base amount

(A) Less than three thousand        None
    dollars
(B) Three thousand dollars or       Thirty-one per centum of
    more, but not more than ten     amount in excess of three
    thousand dollars                thousand dollars
  S 3. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 667
of  the education law, as amended by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is
amended to read as follows:
  (iii) For students who have been granted exclusion of parental  income
PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THIS
PART  and  were  single with no dependent for income tax purposes during
the tax year next preceding the academic year for which  application  is
made,  the  base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of this para-
graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:

Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
                                    of base amount

(A) Less than three thousand        None
    dollars
(B) Three thousand dollars or       Thirty-one per centum of
    more, but not more than ten     amount in excess of three
    thousand dollars                thousand dollars
  S 4. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 667
of the education law, as added by chapter 83 of the  laws  of  1995,  is
amended to read as follows:
  (iii)  For students who have been granted exclusion of parental income
PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THIS
PART and were single with no dependent for income  tax  purposes  during
the  tax  year next preceding the academic year for which application is
made, the base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of  this  para-
graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:

Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
                                    of base amount
(A) Less than one thousand          None

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    dollars
(B) One thousand dollars or         Twenty-six per centum of the excess
    more, but not more than five    over one thousand dollars
    thousand six hundred sixty-
    six dollars
  S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.