NY State Senate Bill 2015-S7650

Senate Bill S7650

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to including scores for international baccalaureate examinations as eligible criteria for receiving a NYS achievement and investment merit scholarship

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2015-S7650 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10528
Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §669-g, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:: S143, A2741

2015-S7650 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to including scores for international baccalaureate examinations as eligible criteria for receiving a NYS achievement and investment in merit scholarship.

2015-S7650 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S7650

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the education law, in relation to including scores for
international baccalaureate examinations as eligible criteria for
receiving a New York state achievement and investment in merit
scholarship

 PURPOSE :

To ensure that high school students participating in International
Baccalaureate (IB) programs are not excluded from being considered for
a NYS Achievement and Investment Merit Scholarship (NY-AIMS).

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 669-g of the education law, as
added by section 1 of part Z of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015 is
amended.

 JUSTIFICATION :

The NYS Achievement and Investment Merit Scholarship was created last
year by the Legislature to offer higher education financial assistance
to students who have achieved academic excellence in high school and

plan to enroll in a public or private college in New York state
immediately after graduation. As currently written, the criteria
requires students to have graduated with two of the following: a grade
point average of 3.3 or higher; graduated with honors on a New York
State Regents diploma or received a score of 3 or higher on two or
more Advanced Placement (AP) exams; or graduated within the top 15% of
his or her high school class.

Unfortunately, the existing criteria does not contain a mechanism for
students participating in International Baccalaureate programs to
apply or be eligible for the scholarship. There are more than 50 high
schools across the state that offer the IB diploma and hundreds of
students that would otherwise be eligible. The bill language simply
adds comparable qualifying criteria for IB students who have also
achieved academic excellence.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

Minimal

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately

2015-S7650 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7650

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 12, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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 including  scores  for
  international  baccalaureate  examinations  as  eligible  criteria for
  receiving a New York state achievement and investment in merit  schol-
  arship

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

  Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 669-g of the educa-
tion law, as added by section 1 of part Z of chapter 56 of the  laws  of
2015, is amended to read as follows:
  b.  graduated  with  a  "with  honors" distinction on a New York state
regents diploma [or], received a score of 3 or higher  on  two  or  more
advanced  placement examinations, RECEIVED A SCORE OF 3 OR HIGHER ON ONE
OR  MORE  INTERNATIONAL  BACCALAUREATE  HIGHER  LEVEL  EXAMINATIONS,  OR
RECEIVED  A  SCORE OF 4 OF HIGHER ON ONE OR MORE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAU-
REATE STANDARD LEVEL EXAMINATIONS; or
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15397-01-6

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