Senate Bill S3296

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing the Gold Award and Eagle Scout achievement scholarship

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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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2025-S3296 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3340
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §668-h, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9531
2023-2024: S4240, A6318

2025-S3296 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to establishing the Gold Award and Eagle Scout achievement scholarship; authorizes a scholarship of $500 per year for high school graduates attending a New York state public post-secondary institution who have achieved a Gold Award from the Girl Scouts of the United States of America or an Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America.

2025-S3296 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3296 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3296
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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 establishing the  Gold
   Award and Eagle Scout achievement scholarship
 
   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  668-h
 to read as follows:
   §  668-H.  GOLD  AWARD  AND  EAGLE  SCOUT  ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP. 1.
 PURPOSE.   THE GOLD AWARD AND EAGLE  SCOUT  ACHIEVEMENT  SCHOLARSHIP  IS
 HEREBY ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSE OF GRANTING SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TO NEW
 YORK  STATE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WHO ACHIEVE A GOLD AWARD FROM THE GIRL
 SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR AN EAGLE SCOUT  FROM  THE  BOY
 SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
   2. ELIGIBILITY. TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH AWARDS, AN APPLICANT MUST HAVE
 GRADUATED  FROM  A  NEW  YORK STATE HIGH SCHOOL, ENROLLED IN AN APPROVED
 UNDERGRADUATE, FULL-TIME PROGRAM OF STUDY IN A  NEW  YORK  STATE  PUBLIC
 POST-SECONDARY  INSTITUTION  BEGINNING IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE--
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX ACADEMIC YEAR OR THEREAFTER, AND ACHIEVED A GOLD
 AWARD FROM THE GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR  AN  EAGLE
 SCOUT  FROM  THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. AN APPLICANT SHALL SHOW PROOF OF
 SUCH GOLD AWARD OR EAGLE SCOUT FROM A GIRL SCOUTS OF THE  UNITED  STATES
 OF  AMERICA  COUNCIL,  OR  BOY  SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL LOCATED IN THE
 STATE.
   3. AWARDS. WITHIN AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED THEREFOR, THE  PRESIDENT  SHALL
 GRANT AN ANNUAL AWARD TO ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO
 OF  THIS SECTION IN THE AMOUNT OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR NOT MORE THAN
 FOUR ACADEMIC YEARS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDY, OR FIVE ACADEMIC  YEARS,  IF
 THE  PROGRAM  OF  STUDY  NORMALLY  REQUIRES FIVE YEARS AS DEFINED BY THE
 COMMISSIONER PURSUANT TO ARTICLE THIRTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01828-01-5
 S. 3296                             2

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