Bill Text: NY A04995 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the New York state dental faculty loan forgiveness incentive program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A04995 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04995-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4995

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  the  New  York  state
          dental faculty loan forgiveness incentive program

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  679-k
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  679-k.  New  York  state  dental faculty loan forgiveness incentive
     4  program.  1. Purpose. a. Process. The president shall grant student loan
     5  forgiveness awards for the purpose of increasing the number of educators
     6  and adjunct clinical faculty teaching in the field of  dental  education
     7  in  New  York state. Such awards shall be made on a competitive basis as
     8  promulgated by the corporation through rules and regulations, to  appli-
     9  cants  who  are  licensed  dentists with previous clinical experience in
    10  dentistry who have completed coursework that qualifies  them  as  dental
    11  faculty  or  adjunct clinical faculty. The president may contract with a
    12  third party  for  purposes  of  administering  the  competitive  process
    13  required under this paragraph.
    14    b.  Eligibility. To be eligible for an award pursuant to this section,
    15  applicants shall:
    16    (i) be licensed as a dentist;
    17    (ii) have an outstanding  student  loan  debt  from  a  dental  degree
    18  program;
    19    (iii)  have  taken coursework that qualified them as dental faculty or
    20  adjunct clinical faculty;
    21    (iv) be employed as a faculty member at a dental school located in New
    22  York state; and
    23    (v) comply with subdivision five of section six hundred  sixty-one  of
    24  this part.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03699-02-3
        A. 4995                             2

     1    c.  Award.   An award of forty thousand dollars shall be made annually
     2  to recipients who have provided classroom or clinical instruction of not
     3  less than twelve academic credit hours, or  its  equivalent,  as  dental
     4  faculty  or  in clinical teaching service in the academic year preceding
     5  the  granting  of  the  award,  provided that no recipient shall receive
     6  cumulative awards, pursuant to this section, in excess  of  one  hundred
     7  sixty thousand dollars.
     8    d. Other awards. Award recipients shall be eligible to apply for other
     9  awards.
    10    e.  Curriculum  development. The president shall contract with a third
    11  party for purposes  of  developing  a  uniform  curriculum  on  academic
    12  dentistry,  which  shall  serve as the basis for the coursework required
    13  under paragraph a of subdivision one of  this  section.  Notwithstanding
    14  any  contrary provision of this section, sections one hundred twelve and
    15  one hundred sixty-three of the state finance law, or any other provision
    16  of law, such contract shall be awarded to  an  association  representing
    17  the  New York state academic dental centers without a competitive bid or
    18  request for proposal process.
    19    2. Duration. Loan forgiveness awards shall be made annually to  appli-
    20  cants  whom  the  corporation has certified are eligible to receive such
    21  awards and have provided  dental  faculty  or  clinical  dental  faculty
    22  services required pursuant to this article; provided that no award shall
    23  be granted for more than four years.
    24    3.  Amount. The corporation shall grant such awards within the amounts
    25  appropriated for such purpose and based on availability of funds  in  an
    26  amount not to exceed the total cost of the student loan debt.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.