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                                   7389
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HYNDMAN  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A.
   SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher  Educa-
   tion
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to graduate tuition
   assistance program awards
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  661  of the education law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
   D. NO PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE DEEMED TO  RESTRICT  ELIGIBLE
 GRADUATE  STUDENTS FROM RECEIVING AWARDS PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED
 SIXTY-SEVEN-B OF THIS PART.
   § 2. The opening paragraph of subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of  subdi-
 vision 3 of section 663 of the education law, as amended by section 5 of
 part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   The applicant is a student who was married on or before December thir-
 ty-first  of  the  calendar  year prior to the beginning of the academic
 year for which application is made or is an  undergraduate  OR  GRADUATE
 student  who has reached the age of twenty-two on or before June thirti-
 eth prior to the academic year for which application is  made  and  who,
 during the calendar year next preceding the semester, quarter or term of
 attendance  for  which  application  is made and at all times subsequent
 thereto up to and including the entire period for which  application  is
 made:
   § 3. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 663 of the education law,
 as  amended by section 6 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is
 amended to read as follows:
   d. Any undergraduate OR GRADUATE student who was  allowed  to  exclude
 parental  income  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of subdivision three of
 section six hundred three of this chapter as they existed prior to  July
 first, nineteen hundred seventy-four may continue to exclude such income

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 for  so long as [he] SUCH UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE STUDENT continues to
 comply with such provisions.
   §  4.  The  education  law is amended by adding a new section 667-b to
 read as follows:
   § 667-B. GRADUATE TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM  AWARDS.  1.    RECIPIENT
 QUALIFICATIONS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW OR REGULATION
 TO  THE  CONTRARY,  GRADUATE  TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AWARDS SHALL BE
 AVAILABLE FOR ALL STUDENTS WHO ARE ENROLLED IN  APPROVED  POST-BACCALAU-
 REATE  PROGRAMS  LEADING  TO A GRADUATE, FIRST PROFESSIONAL, OR DOCTORAL
 DEGREE IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS, EDUCATION OR  A
 LICENSED  HEALTHCARE  PROFESSION,  AND  WHO  DEMONSTRATE  THE ABILITY TO
 COMPLETE SUCH COURSES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS ESTABLISHED  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER,  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO AWARD SHALL EXCEED ONE HUNDRED
 PERCENT OF THE AMOUNT OF TUITION CHARGED.
   2. DURATION. NO GRADUATE STUDENT SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR AWARDS FOR MORE
 THAN TWO YEARS OF POST-BACCALAUREATE STUDIES. A STUDENT MAY NOT  RECEIVE
 AWARDS  UNDER  THIS  SECTION  AT THE SAME TIME THEY RECEIVE AWARDS UNDER
 SECTION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN OF THIS  SUBPART,  NOR  WHILE  THEY  ARE
 ENROLLED AS AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT.
   3. GRADUATE TUITION ASSISTANCE AWARDS. THE PRESIDENT SHALL MAKE AWARDS
 TO  GRADUATE  STUDENTS  ENROLLED IN APPROVED PROGRAMS AT DEGREE GRANTING
 INSTITUTIONS IN THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS:
   (A) FOR EACH YEAR OF GRADUATE STUDIES, AN  ELIGIBLE  GRADUATE  STUDENT
 MAY  RECEIVE  UP  TO FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS OR THE
 COST OF THEIR TUITION, WHICHEVER IS LESS; AND
   (B) THE BASE AMOUNT AS DETERMINED UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVI-
 SION SHALL BE REDUCED IN RELATION TO INCOME AS FOLLOWS:
 
 AMOUNT OF INCOME                    SCHEDULE OF REDUCTION
                                    OF BASE AMOUNT
 
 (I) LESS THAN SEVEN THOUSAND        NONE
 DOLLARS
 (II) SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OR      SEVEN PER CENTUM OF EXCESS
 MORE, BUT LESS THAN ELEVEN          OVER SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
 THOUSAND DOLLARS
 (III) ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OR    TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS
 MORE, BUT LESS THAN EIGHTEEN        PLUS TEN PER CENTUM OF EXCESS
 THOUSAND DOLLARS                    OVER ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
 (IV) EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OR   NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS
 MORE, BUT NOT MORE THAN EIGHTY      PLUS TWELVE PER CENTUM OF
 THOUSAND DOLLARS                    EXCESS OVER EIGHTEEN
                                     THOUSAND DOLLARS.

   (C) IF THE AMOUNT OF REDUCTION IS NOT A  WHOLE  DOLLAR,  IT  SHALL  BE
 REDUCED TO THE NEXT LOWEST WHOLE DOLLAR; AND
   (D)  THE  MINIMUM AWARD PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE ONE THOUSAND
 DOLLARS.
   4. RESTRICTIONS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY AWARD:
   (A) EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF ANNUAL TUITION CHARGED TO SUCH STUDENT  AFTER
 FEDERAL, STATE, OR OTHER EDUCATION AID IS RECEIVED OR RECEIVABLE BY SUCH
 STUDENT  DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR FOR WHICH SUCH AWARD IS APPLICABLE, THAT
 IN THE JUDGEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT WOULD DUPLICATE THE PURPOSES  OF  THIS
 AWARD.  THE  PRESIDENT SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO DISTIN-
 GUISH BETWEEN DUPLICATIVE AID, AND NON-DUPLICATIVE AID SUCH AS  RESEARCH
 AND FELLOWSHIP FUNDING;
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   (B)  BE  MADE WHEN INCOME EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM INCOME SET FORTH IN THIS
 SECTION; OR
   (C)  BE  MADE  FOR  LESS  THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, EXCEPT WHERE SUCH
 AWARD IS REDUCED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.