NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7251

Senate Bill S7251

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to standardizing the tuition assistance award schedules for dependent students at degree-granting colleges in the state

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance 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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 28, 2020	reported and committed to finance
Jan 14, 2020	referred to higher education

Votes

- Jan 28, 2020 - Higher Education Committee Vote
  S7251
  
  11
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Higher Education Committee Vote: Jan 28, 2020
      
      aye (11)
      
      Amedore
      
      Breslin
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gounardes
      
      Jackson
      
      LaValle
      
      May
      
      Robach
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky

2019-S7251 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10026
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §667, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: S2764, A5708

2019-S7251 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Standardizes the tuition assistance award schedules for dependent students at degree-granting colleges in the state.

2019-S7251 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7251               REVISED 01/28/2020

SPONSOR: STAVISKY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to standardizing the
tuition assistance award schedules for dependent students at degree-
granting colleges in the state

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends subitem (a) of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of para-
graph a of subdivision 3 of section 667 of the education law, as amended
by section 2 of Part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014.

Section 2 amends subitem (b) of item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i)
of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 667 of the education law, as
amended by section 3 of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014.

Section 3 provides for the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation standardizes the current award schedules for the
tuition assistance program (TAP) award for dependent students.  Current-
ly, all students that had previously received a TAP award prior to the
2000-2001 academic year if they returned to their undergraduate studies
would be limited to the maximum TAP award based on the TAP schedule in
effect when they began their undergraduate career. This legislation will
decouple their TAP award from the TAP schedule in effect when they began
their undergraduate career by making all prior awards eligible to
receive up to the current maximum TAP award of $5,165. Following the
enactment of this legislation, students will be able to receive the
maximum TAP award under current law, which would allow these students to
also benefit if the current maximum TAP award was to ever be increased.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Negligible to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2019-S7251 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7251
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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  standardizing  the
   tuition  assistance  award schedules for dependent students at degree-
   granting colleges in the state
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subitem (a) of item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of
 paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 667 of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  section  2  of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (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 two hundred ninety dollars] THE SAME AMOUNT  AS
 IN SUBITEM (C) OF THIS ITEM; or
   §  2. Subitem (b) of item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of para-
 graph a of subdivision 3 of section 667 of the education law, as amended
 by section 3 of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   (b) For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-three-
 -nineteen  hundred ninety-four or earlier, [three thousand seven hundred
 forty dollars] THE SAME AMOUNT AS IN SUBITEM (C) OF THIS ITEM; or
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14326-01-9

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