Bill Text: NY A07915 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires institutions of higher education to disclose the average dollar amount of institutional aid awarded to students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-04 - enacting clause stricken [A07915 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07915-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7915
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 24, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  P. RIVERA  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  the  disclosure  of
         average awards by institutions of higher education
         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  6406
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  6406. DISCLOSURE OF AVERAGE AWARDS BY INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCA-
    4  TION. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE TERM  "INSTITUTION  OF  HIGHER
    5  EDUCATION"  SHALL  MEAN  AN  INSTITUTION THAT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS SET
    6  FORTH IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIXTY-FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTI-
    7  CLE, OR AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISIONS TWO, THREE, OR FOUR OF SECTION  THREE
    8  HUNDRED  FIFTY  OF THIS CHAPTER, OR SUBDIVISIONS FOUR OR FIVE OF SECTION
    9  SIXTY-TWO HUNDRED TWO OF THIS TITLE AND THE TERM "INCOME" SHALL HAVE THE
   10  SAME MEANING AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF  SECTION  SIX
   11  HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   12    2.  EACH  INSTITUTION  OF HIGHER EDUCATION LOCATED IN THIS STATE SHALL
   13  DISCLOSE THE AVERAGE DOLLAR AMOUNT OF AID AWARDED BY THE INSTITUTION  TO
   14  STUDENTS  WITH  AN  ANNUAL  INCOME  OF  LESS  THAN  TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
   15  DOLLARS. SUCH DISCLOSURE SHALL BE MADE FOR EACH LEVEL OF  ANNUAL  INCOME
   16  IN  TWENTY  THOUSAND  DOLLAR INCREMENTS. SUCH DISCLOSURE SHALL BE AVAIL-
   17  ABLE: (A) IN WRITTEN FORM UPON REQUEST BY ANY PERSON; (B) ON THE WEBSITE
   18  OF SUCH INSTITUTION; AND (C) IN SUCH INSTITUTION'S CATALOGUE.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   20  have  become  a  law;  provided  that the provisions of paragraph (c) of
   21  subdivision 2 of section 6406 of the education law added by section  one
   22  of this act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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