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A10870 Summary:

BILL NO	A10870
SAME AS	SAME AS S09105
SPONSOR	Cruz
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §661, Ed L
Removes two year minimum attendance requirement at a New York high school when determining eligibility for certain student loans.

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A10870 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          10870
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      April 8, 2026
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to removing minimum  year
          requirements for attendance at a New York high school when determining
          eligibility for certain student loans
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Clause (a) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a  and  clause
     2  (a)  of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 661
     3  of the education law, as amended by chapter 26 of the laws of 2019,  are
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    (a)  attended a registered New York state high school [for two or more
     6  years], graduated from a registered  New  York  state  high  school  and
     7  applied  for  attendance  at the institution of higher education for the
     8  undergraduate study for which an award is sought within  five  years  of
     9  receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
    10    (a) attended a registered approved New York state high school [for two
    11  or  more  years], graduated from a registered New York state high school
    12  and applied for attendance at the institution of  higher  education  for
    13  the  graduate  study  for  which  an award is sought within ten years of
    14  receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13481-01-5

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