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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2015
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMANOWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  tuition  assistance
  program awards

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subitem (d) of item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i)  of
paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3 of section 667 of the education law, is
relettered subitem (e) and a  new  subitem  (d)  is  added  to  read  as
follows:
  (D)  FOR  STUDENTS  FIRST  RECEIVING  AID IN TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN--TWO
THOUSAND SEVENTEEN AND  THEREAFTER,  AN  AMOUNT  EQUAL  TO  SUCH  YEAR'S
TUITION AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK; OR
  S 2. Item 2 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph a of subdi-
vision 3 of section 667 of the education law, as amended by section 2 of
part H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  (2)  In the case of students receiving awards pursuant to subparagraph
(iii) of this paragraph and those students who have been granted  exclu-
sion of parental income who have a spouse but no other dependent.
  (a)  FOR  STUDENTS  FIRST  RECEIVING  AID IN TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN--TWO
THOUSAND SEVENTEEN AND  THEREAFTER,  AN  AMOUNT  EQUAL  TO  SUCH  YEAR'S
TUITION AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, OR
  (B)  For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-four-
-nineteen hundred ninety-five and nineteen hundred ninety-five--nineteen
hundred ninety-six and thereafter, three thousand  twenty-five  dollars,
or
  [(b)]  (C)  For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred nine-
ty-two--nineteen hundred ninety-three and nineteen hundred ninety-three-
-nineteen hundred ninety-four, two thousand  five  hundred  seventy-five
dollars, or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  [(c)]  (D)  For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred nine-
ty-one--nineteen  hundred  ninety-two  or  earlier,  two  thousand  four
hundred fifty dollars; or
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.