§ 667-a. Supplemental tuition assistance program. 1. Legislative
intent. The legislature hereby finds that to further the goal of equal
opportunity it is necessary to assure the availability of supplemental
assistance for the successful remediation of educationally disadvantaged
students in addition to assistance currently available under existing
statute for students with financial need. Accordingly, tuition
assistance shall be extended to students whose need for remediation
precludes them from fulfilling the program pursuit and academic progress
requirements of the tuition assistance program.

2. Operation. (a) The supplemental tuition assistance program shall
be governed by all law, rules and regulations pertaining to the tuition
assistance program provided however that, notwithstanding any law, rule
and regulation to the contrary, eligibility for supplemental tuition
assistance program awards shall be limited to any undergraduate student
receiving aid under this article for the first time during school year
nineteen hundred ninety-five--nineteen hundred ninety-six or thereafter
who meets both of the following conditions:

(i) The student shall not be enrolled in the higher education
opportunity program, educational opportunity program, the Percy Ellis
Sutton search for education, elevation and knowledge program or the
college discovery program.

(ii) The student must be accepted into an institution of higher
education and be enrolled in an approved non-credit bearing remediation
program in the summer immediately preceding and/or immediately following
the initial year of matriculated study.

(b) Students who meet the conditions described in paragraph (a) of
this subdivision shall be eligible to receive up to one quarter of the
annual tuition assistance program award for each session, up to two
sessions, of summer remediation in addition to those tuition assistance
program awards specified in subdivision two of section six hundred
sixty-seven of this article.