Bill Text: NY A01956 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that a scholarship for academic excellence that is declined by a student or is revoked for any reason shall be granted to the next most qualified student.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A01956 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01956-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1956 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to scholarships for academic excellence The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 605-a of the education law, as 2 amended by section 83 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. In the event that a scholarship awarded is declined by a student, 5 or for any reason is revoked by the commissioner or the president, its 6 benefits shall [lapse and there shall be no further payments or awarding7of such scholarship] be granted to the next most qualified student as 8 defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of August next succeeding 10 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03338-01-3
