Senate Bill S6749

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to tuition assistance program awards

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  • 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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2013-S6749 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §667, Ed L

2013-S6749 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to tuition assistance program awards.

2013-S6749 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S6749 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6749

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 5, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

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. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 667 of  the  educa-
tion law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 60 of the laws of
2000,  item  1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) as amended by section 1
of part H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, subitem (c) of  item  1  of
clause  (A)  of  subparagraph  (i) as separately amended by section 1 of
part E and section 1 of part H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011,  subi-
tem  (d) of item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) as added by section
1 of part E of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, item 2 of clause  (A)  of
subparagraph  (i) as amended by section 2 of part H of chapter 58 of the
laws of 2011 and subparagraph (iii) as amended by section 3 of part H of
chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  a. Amount. The president shall make awards  to  students  enrolled  in
degree-granting   institutions  or  registered  not-for-profit  business
schools qualified for tax exemption under S 501(c)(3)  of  the  internal
revenue code for federal income tax purposes in the following amounts:
  (i) For each year of undergraduate study, assistance shall be provided
as  computed  on  the  basis  of  the  amount which is the lesser of the
following:
  (A) (1) In the case of students who have not been granted an exclusion
of parental income or had a dependent for income tax purposes during the
tax year next preceding the academic year for which application is made,
except for those students who have been granted  exclusion  of  parental
income who have a spouse but no other dependent:
  (a)  For  students  first receiving aid after nineteen hundred ninety-
three--nineteen hundred ninety-four and before two  thousand--two  thou-
sand one, four thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14318-01-4

              

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