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Senate Bill S1628

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits awarding TAP grants to those enrolled at for-profit universities

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2021-S1628 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3321
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5607, A8251
2023-2024: S1079, A10138
2025-2026: S1836, A5515

2021-S1628 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the awarding of TAP grants to those enrolled at for-profit universities.

2021-S1628 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1628 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1628
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, BIAGGI -- 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  prohibiting  awarding
   TAP grants to those enrolled at for-profit universities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 667 of  the  educa-
 tion  law,  as added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995 and as relettered
 by section 2 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   c. Restrictions. In no [even shall] EVENT shall any award:
   (i)  be made unless the annual tuition (exclusive of educational fees)
 and, if applicable, the college fee levied by the  state  university  of
 New  York  pursuant  to  the  April  first,  nineteen hundred sixty-four
 financing agreement with the New York state dormitory authority  charged
 for  the  program  in  which  the student is enrolled total at least two
 hundred dollars; or
   (ii) exceed the amount by which  such  annual  tuition  (exclusive  of
 educational  fees)  and,  if  applicable,  the college fee levied by the
 state university of New York  pursuant  to  the  April  first,  nineteen
 hundred sixty-four financing agreement with the New York state dormitory
 authority  exceed the total of all other state, federal, or other educa-
 tional aid that is received or receivable by  such  student  during  the
 school year for which such award is applicable and that, in the judgment
 of the commissioner, would duplicate the purposes of the award; or
   (iii) be made when income exceeds the maximum income set forth in this
 subdivision.  The  commissioner  shall list in his regulations all major
 state and federal financial aid available to New York state students and
 identify any forms of aid that are duplicative of the  purposes  of  the
 tuition  assistance  program.  For  the  purposes  of  this subdivision,
 neither United States war orphan educational benefits nor benefits under
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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