Bill Text: NY A02870 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes academic performance awards for incarcerated persons making such persons eligible to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to higher education [A02870 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A02870-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2870 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 20, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY, CLARK, MOSLEY, SCARBOROUGH, ROZIC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to repeal paragraph d of subdivision 6 of section 661 of the education law relating to eligibility of incarcerated persons for academic performance awards THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 6 of section 661 of the educa- 2 tion law is REPEALED. 3 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02232-01-5