Bill Text: NY A06422 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the community college merit and mobility scholarship; implements such scholarship for the two thousand nineteen -- two thousand twenty academic year and each year thereafter.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in higher education [A06422 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06422-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6422
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  establishing  the
          community college merit and mobility scholarship
          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  669-i
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  669-i.  The  community  college  merit and mobility scholarship. 1.
     4  Purpose.  The community college merit and mobility scholarship is hereby
     5  established for the purpose of  granting  merit  based  scholarships  to
     6  students who attend a New York state community college.
     7    2. Eligibility. To be eligible for such awards, an applicant must have
     8  graduated  from  a  New  York  state  high  school within the top twenty
     9  percent of his or her high school class and achieve the following:
    10    a. remain in good academic standing, and
    11    b. maintain a grade point average of 3.3 or above.
    12    3. Awards. One thousand scholarships shall be awarded in the two thou-
    13  sand nineteen -- two thousand twenty academic year, and thereafter.  The
    14  annual scholarship shall be awarded to eligible applicants in the amount
    15  of one thousand dollars per year for not more than two  academic  years.
    16  The maximum scholarship award shall not exceed two thousand dollars. The
    17  president  shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to make such
    18  scholarship available on an annual basis to full-time recipients or  per
    19  credit  basis  to part-time recipients.  Part-time students shall not be
    20  impacted by the two-year academic year award limitation. Up to one thou-
    21  sand scholarships may be granted to new recipients annually. The receipt
    22  of such scholarships shall not affect  tuition  assistance  eligibility.
    23  In  no event shall the amount of the annual award exceed the recipient's
    24  cost of attendance at the institution attended. Cost of attendance shall
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06891-01-9

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     1  mean tuition, required fees, laboratory and other instruction related to
     2  expenses, books, transportation, and room and board.
     3    4.  Priority. In the event that there are more applicants who have the
     4  same priority than there are remaining scholarships, the president shall
     5  distribute the remaining number of  such  scholarships  by  means  of  a
     6  lottery or other form of random selection.
     7    5.  Rules. The corporation is authorized to promulgate rules and regu-
     8  lations, and may promulgate emergency  regulations,  for  the  necessary
     9  implementation of the provisions of this section.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.
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