Senate Bill S8105

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to changes in an applicant's tuition assistance status

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education 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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2023-S8105 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§663 & 669-h, Ed L

2023-S8105 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires corporations to include causes for change when an applicant for tuition assistance or such applicant's parent has an adjustment to income.

2023-S8105 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8105 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8105
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 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 reflecting a change in
   circumstance when making adjustments to income
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section  663 of the education law, as
 amended by section 3 of part J of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   5.  Adjustments  of  income.  A.  In  the  determination of income for
 purposes of paragraphs a and b  of  subdivision  three  of  section  six
 hundred  sixty-seven  of this part if, during the academic year in which
 the applicant will receive an award, one of either the  parents  of  the
 applicant  or  other  dependent child of such parents, the spouse of the
 applicant, or one or more dependent children of the applicant, in  addi-
 tion  to  the  applicant, will be in full-time attendance in an approved
 program, the combined net taxable income  determined  under  subdivision
 one  of  this  section shall be reduced by three thousand dollars and an
 additional two thousand dollars for each other such person additional to
 the aforesaid persons (including the applicant)  who  will  be  in  such
 attendance,  and  the  resulting  amount  shall be deemed the applicable
 income in determining the applicant's award for the academic year.
   B. WHEN MAKING ADJUSTMENTS TO INCOME TO REFLECT A  CHANGE  IN  CIRCUM-
 STANCE,  THE  CORPORATION  SHALL,  PURSUANT  TO  RULES  AND REGULATIONS,
 INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING CAUSES FOR CHANGE IN STATUS OF THE APPLICANT:  (1)
 LOSS  OF  EMPLOYMENT  OF  THE  APPLICANT OR PARENT OF THE APPLICANT; (2)
 CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS OF THE APPLICANT;  OR  (3)  THE  APPLICANT  OR  THE
 SPOUSE OF THE APPLICANT IS CALLED TO ACTIVE MILITARY DUTY.
   §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 669-h of the education law, as amended
 by section 1 of part T of chapter 56 of the laws of 2018, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   1.  Eligibility.  An  excelsior  scholarship award shall be made to an
 applicant who: (a) is matriculated in an approved program leading to  an
 undergraduate  degree  at  a New York state public institution of higher
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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