Assembly Bill A7842

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to student financial aid programs

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  • 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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2015-A7842 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §605, add Art 14 Part 2 Subpart 4 §679-h, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A2263
2019-2020: A1178
2021-2022: A1215
2023-2024: A355

2015-A7842 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to student financial aid programs; allows absence because of uniformed service, maternity/paternity, FMLA, or due to compensable injury to be creditable time.

2015-A7842 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7842

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 28, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student financial  aid
  programs

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 9 of  section  605  of  the  education  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
  G.  A  PERIOD OF LEAVE WITHOUT PAY, OR OTHER PERIODS WHICH AN ELIGIBLE
APPLICANT IS NOT IN A PAY STATUS SHALL NOT COUNT TOWARD  THE  COMPLETION
OF THE REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD REEMPLOYMENT. THE SERVICE COMPLETION DATE
SHALL    BE EXTENDED BY THE TOTAL TIME SPENT IN NON-PAY STATUS. HOWEVER,
ABSENCE BECAUSE OF UNIFORMED SERVICE WITH A  RECOGNIZED  BRANCH  OF  THE
UNITED  STATES MILITARY, AUTHORIZED MATERNITY/PATERNITY, FMLA, OR DUE TO
COMPENSABLE INJURY SHALL  BE  CONSIDERED  CREDITABLE,  WITHIN  THE  SOLE
DISCRETION OF THE PRESIDENT, TOWARD THE REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD OF REEM-
PLOYMENT.
  S 2. Subpart 4 of part 2 of article 14 of the education law is amended
by adding a new section 679-h to read as follows:
  S  679-H.  LOAN  FORGIVENESS  ELIGIBILITY.  FOR  ALL  LOAN FORGIVENESS
PROGRAMS REFERENCED IN THIS SUBPART, A PERIOD OF LEAVE WITHOUT  PAY,  OR
OTHER  PERIODS  WHICH AN ELIGIBLE APPLICANT IS NOT IN A PAY STATUS SHALL
NOT COUNT TOWARD THE COMPLETION OF THE REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD REEMPLOY-
MENT. THE SERVICE COMPLETION DATE SHALL BE EXTENDED BY  THE  TOTAL  TIME
SPENT  IN  NON-PAY STATUS. HOWEVER, ABSENCE BECAUSE OF UNIFORMED SERVICE
WITH A RECOGNIZED BRANCH  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  MILITARY,  AUTHORIZED
MATERNITY/PATERNITY, FMLA, OR DUE TO COMPENSABLE INJURY SHALL BE CONSID-
ERED CREDITABLE, WITHIN THE SOLE DISCRETION OF THE PRESIDENT, TOWARD THE
REQUIRED SERVICE PERIOD OF REEMPLOYMENT.
  S  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2010.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10718-02-5

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