Bill Text: NY A01889 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-14)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-18 - print number 1889a [A01889 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01889-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1889--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CLARK, ZEBROWSKI, McMAHON, KELLES, SEAWRIGHT,
          CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, GALLAHAN, GALLAGHER, SAYEGH, BURKE,  HUNTER,  STIRPE,
          CONRAD,  J. A. GIGLIO, JONES, THIELE, FAHY, LUNSFORD, MEEKS, SILLITTI,
          BRONSON, HEVESI, DAVILA, SIMON, STERN,  WOERNER,  BRABENEC,  ANGELINO,
          J. M. GIGLIO,   TAGUE,  JACOBSON,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  MIKULIN,  LUPARDO,
          K. BROWN, SIMONE, BENDETT, CURRAN, RAGA, FLOOD,  BURGOS,  JEAN-PIERRE,
          MANKTELOW,  McDONOUGH,  ZACCARO, AUBRY, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA, RAMOS
          -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee on Higher Education in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the  income
          eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (ii)  of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section  667  of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of
     3  chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ii) Except for students as noted in subparagraph (iii) of this  para-
     5  graph, the base amount as determined from subparagraph (i) of this para-
     6  graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:

     7  Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
     8                                      of base amount

     9  (A) Less than seven thousand        None
    10      dollars
    11  (B) Seven thousand dollars or       Seven per centum of excess
    12      more, but less than eleven      over seven thousand dollars
    13      thousand dollars
    14  (C) Eleven thousand dollars or      Two hundred eighty dollars

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1889--A                          2

     1      more, but less than eighteen    plus ten per centum of excess
     2      thousand dollars                over eleven thousand dollars
     3  (D) Eighteen thousand dollars or    Nine hundred eighty dollars
     4      more, but not more than [eighty]plus twelve per centum of
     5      one hundred twenty-five         excess over eighteen
     6      thousand dollars                 thousand dollars
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.