Assembly Bill A5709

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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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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2021-A5709 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2765
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10004, S7252

2021-A5709 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A5709 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5709
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 24, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  standardizing  the
   tuition   assistance  award  schedules  for  independent  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 (b) of item 2 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 H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (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] THE SAME AMOUNT AS IN SUBITEM (A) OF THIS ITEM, or
   §  2. Subitem (c) of item 2 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 H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   (c)  For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-one--
 nineteen hundred ninety-two or earlier, [two thousand four hundred fifty
 dollars] THE SAME AMOUNT AS IN SUBITEM (A) 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.
                                                            LBD07540-01-1

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