Bill Text: NY S00143 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S00143 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00143-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 143 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 the duration of tuition assistance awards The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 604 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. Tuition assistance awards provided for in subdivision one of this 4 section shall be available to students enrolled in approved programs for 5 five academic years in the aggregate. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 7 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05290-01-9