STATE OF NEW YORK
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10138
IN ASSEMBLY
May 9, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting awarding
TAP grants to those enrolled at for-profit universities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 667 of the educa-
2 tion law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995 and as relettered
3 by section 2 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 c. Restrictions. In no [even shall] event shall any award:
6 (i) be made unless the annual tuition (exclusive of educational fees)
7 and, if applicable, the college fee levied by the state university of
8 New York pursuant to the April first, nineteen hundred sixty-four
9 financing agreement with the New York state dormitory authority charged
10 for the program in which the student is enrolled total at least two
11 hundred dollars; or
12 (ii) exceed the amount by which such annual tuition (exclusive of
13 educational fees) and, if applicable, the college fee levied by the
14 state university of New York pursuant to the April first, nineteen
15 hundred sixty-four financing agreement with the New York state dormitory
16 authority exceed the total of all other state, federal, or other educa-
17 tional aid that is received or receivable by such student during the
18 school year for which such award is applicable and that, in the judgment
19 of the commissioner, would duplicate the purposes of the award; or
20 (iii) be made when income exceeds the maximum income set forth in this
21 subdivision. The commissioner shall list in his regulations all major
22 state and federal financial aid available to New York state students and
23 identify any forms of aid that are duplicative of the purposes of the
24 tuition assistance program. For the purposes of this subdivision,
25 neither United States war orphan educational benefits nor benefits under
26 the veterans' readjustment act of nineteen hundred sixty-six shall be
27 considered as federal or other educational aid; or
28 (iv) be made to anyone matriculated at a for-profit institution.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03646-01-3
A. 10138 2
1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
2 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the
3 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
4 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
5 to be made on or before such date.
