Bill Text: NY S07348 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows colleges and universities participating in the higher education opportunity program to spend program funds on certain expenses beneficial to students: student travel for academic activities or conferences; expenses related to helping students apply for and prepare for graduate or professional school; the hiring of students participating in an Arthur O. Eve opportunity for higher education work-study program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-11-28 - SIGNED CHAP.494 [S07348 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07348-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7348--A
            Cal. No. 931
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 20, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to contracts for the
          Arthur O.  Eve opportunity for higher education
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 6451 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 149 of the laws  of  1972,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  Moneys  made  available to institutions through contracts shall be
     5  spent only for the following purposes:
     6    a. Special testing, counseling and guidance services in the course  of
     7  screening potential enrollees;
     8    b.  Remedial courses, developmental or compensatory courses and summer
     9  classes for such students;
    10    c.  Special  tutoring,  counseling  and  guidance  services  for  such
    11  enrolled students;
    12    d.  Any necessary supplemental financial assistance, which may include
    13  the cost of books and necessary maintenance for such enrolled  students;
    14  provided,  however, that such supplemental financial assistance shall be
    15  furnished pursuant to criteria promulgated by the commissioner with  the
    16  approval of the director of the budget[.];
    17    e.  Partial  reimbursement  for  tuition  for regular academic courses
    18  pursuant to criteria promulgated by the commissioner [of education.];
    19    f. Student travel for academic activities or conferences;
    20    g. Expenses related to helping students  apply  for  and  prepare  for
    21  graduate or professional school; and
    22    h.  The  hiring of enrolled students participating in an Arthur O. Eve
    23  opportunity for higher education work-study program.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    25  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.
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