STATE OF NEW YORK
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4263
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
ALVAREZ, FORREST, GIBBS, HYNDMAN, KELLES -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the income
eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program
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 X of
3 chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, 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 Amount of income Schedule of reduction
8 of base amount
9 (A) Less than seven thousand None
10 dollars
11 (B) Seven thousand dollars or Seven per centum of excess
12 more, but less than eleven over seven thousand dollars
13 thousand dollars
14 (C) Eleven thousand dollars or Two hundred eighty dollars
15 more, but less than eighteen plus ten per centum of excess
16 thousand dollars over eleven thousand dollars
17 (D) Eighteen thousand dollars or Nine hundred eighty dollars
18 more, but not more than one plus twelve per centum of
19 hundred [twenty-five] excess over eighteen
20 fifty thousand dollars
21 thousand dollars
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
23 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.
LBD06526-01-5
