Bill Text: NY S02213 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to tuition assistance program awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-24 - PRINT NUMBER 2213B [S02213 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02213-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         2213--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE,  FUNKE,  ORTT  -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Higher
          Education  --  reported favorably from said committee and committed to
          the Committee  on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education  in  accordance  with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  tuition  assistance
          program awards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (ii)  of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section  667  of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of
     3  chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ii) Except for students as noted in subparagraph (iii) of this  para-
     5  graph, the base amount as determined from subparagraph (i) of this para-
     6  graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
     7    For the 2018-2019 academic year:
     8  Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
     9                                      of base amount
    10  (A) Less than seven thousand        None
    11      dollars
    12  (B) Seven thousand dollars or       Seven per centum of excess
    13      more, but less than eleven      over seven thousand dollars
    14      thousand dollars
    15  (C) Eleven thousand dollars or      Two hundred eighty dollars
    16      more, but less than eighteen    plus ten per centum
    17      thousand dollars                of excess over eleven
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07457-05-8

        S. 2213--B                          2
     1                                      thousand dollars
     2  (D) Eighteen thousand dollars or    Nine hundred eighty dollars
     3      more, but not more than         plus twelve
     4                                      per centum of
     5      eighty thousand                 excess over eighteen
     6      dollars                          thousand dollars
     7    For the 2019-2020 academic year and thereafter:
     8  Amount of income                    Schedule of reduction
     9                                      of base amount
    10  (A) Less than ten thousand          None
    11      dollars
    12  (B) Ten thousand dollars or         3.19 percent
    13      more but less than fifteen
    14      thousand dollars
    15  (C) Fifteen thousand dollars        12.88 percent
    16      or more but less than
    17      twenty thousand dollars
    18  (D) Twenty thousand dollars         22.56 percent
    19      or more but less than
    20      twenty-five thousand
    21      dollars
    22  (E) Twenty-five thousand            32.24 percent
    23      dollars or more but
    24      less than thirty thousand
    25      dollars
    26  (F) Thirty thousand dollars         41.92 percent
    27      or more but less than
    28      thirty-five thousand dollars
    29  (G) Thirty-five thousand dollars    51.60 percent
    30      or more but less than
    31      forty thousand dollars
    32  (H) Forty thousand dollars or       61.28 percent
    33      more but less than forty-five
    34      thousand dollars
    35  (I) Forty-five thousand dollars     70.96 percent
    36      or more but less than
    37      fifty thousand dollars
    38  (J) Fifty thousand dollars or       80.64 percent
    39      more but less than one hundred
    40      thousand dollars
    41    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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