Bill Text: NY S00130 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 130 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows disabled students to increase duration limits for student financial aid awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S00130 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00130-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           130
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to disabled students
          seeking to increase duration limits for student financial aid awards
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph g of subdivision 4 of section 661 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by section 1 of part Z of chapter 58 of the laws of
     3  2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    g. For students who are disabled as  defined  by  the  Americans  With
     5  [Disability]  Disabilities  Act  of  1990,  42  USC 12101, the full-time
     6  attendance requirement is eliminated and the duration limit, as provided
     7  in section six hundred sixty-seven of this part, may be increased up  to
     8  a  period not to exceed six years as approved by the commissioner.  Such
     9  disabled students may be in part-time  attendance,  as  defined  by  the
    10  commissioner in order to be eligible to receive payments from the presi-
    11  dent.    The  disabled  student seeking assistance for a duration period
    12  longer than allowable by law must demonstrate to the  commissioner  that
    13  their disability prevented the completion of the enrolled program within
    14  the maximum award period.
    15    § 2. The commissioner of education shall have the authority to promul-
    16  gate  rules  and regulations as necessary to implement the provisions of
    17  this act.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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