Senate Bill S8218

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers

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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-S8218 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8375
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §679-k, Ed L

2023-S8218 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers who commit to work in counties with less than two hundred thousand population, or towns which have a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square mile for the duration of the award.

2023-S8218 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8218 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8218
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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  providing  loan
   forgiveness for social workers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  679-k
 to read as follows:
   §  679-K.  NEW  YORK  STATE  SOCIAL  WORKER LOAN FORGIVENESS INCENTIVE
 PROGRAM. 1.  PURPOSE. THE PRESIDENT SHALL GRANT STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS
 AWARDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALLEVIATING THE BURDEN OF  STUDENT  LOAN  DEBT
 FOR  SOCIAL  WORKERS  IN  NEW YORK STATE. SUCH AWARDS SHALL BE MADE ON A
 COMPETITIVE BASIS AS PROMULGATED BY THE CORPORATION FOR  SUCH  PURPOSES,
 TO  APPLICANTS  WHO  MEET THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA. SUCH RULES AND REGU-
 LATIONS SHALL INCLUDE PROVISIONS FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF APPLICANTS WHO
 ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.
   2. ELIGIBILITY. TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN AWARD PURSUANT TO THIS  SECTION,
 APPLICANTS SHALL:
   (A)  HAVE  GRADUATED  AND  OBTAINED A DEGREE FROM AN APPROVED NEW YORK
 STATE COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY;
   (B) HAVE AN OUTSTANDING STUDENT LOAN DEBT FROM OBTAINING SUCH DEGREE;
   (C) BE EMPLOYED AS A LICENSED MASTER SOCIAL WORKER OR  LICENSED  CLIN-
 ICAL  SOCIAL  WORKER  IN  NEW  YORK STATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE ONE
 HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER;
   (D) APPLY FOR THIS PROGRAM WITHIN TWO YEARS OF COLLEGE GRADUATION;
   (E) COMPLY WITH SUBDIVISIONS THREE AND FIVE  OF  SECTION  SIX  HUNDRED
 SIXTY-ONE OF THIS PART; AND
   (F)  MAKE  A  COMMITMENT  TO  PRACTICE  IN A COUNTY WITH LESS THAN TWO
 HUNDRED THOUSAND POPULATION, OR ANY TOWN WHICH HAS A POPULATION OF  LESS
 THAN  ONE  HUNDRED FIFTY PERSONS PER SQUARE MILE FOR THE DURATION OF THE
 AWARD.
   3. AWARDS. THE CORPORATION SHALL  GRANT  SUCH  AWARDS  WITHIN  AMOUNTS
 APPROPRIATED FOR SUCH PURPOSES AND BASED ON THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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