Provides that a scholarship for academic excellence that is declined by a student prior to the end of their high school program shall be granted to the next most qualified student, if practicable.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7053--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, COLTON, O'PHARROW, DAVILA --
read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to scholarships for
academic excellence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 605-a of the education law, as
2 amended by section 83 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. In the event that a scholarship awarded is declined by a student,
5 or for any reason revoked by the commissioner or the president, its
6 benefits shall lapse and there shall be no further payments or awarding
7 of such scholarship; provided however, if an award is declined by a
8 student prior to the end of their high school program, the scholarship
9 shall be awarded, to the extent practicable, to the next most qualified
10 student pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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