NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9507
SPONSOR: Glick TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to removing the limit on
the total annual cost of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty
scholarship program
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one removes the limit on the total annual cost of the Senator
Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty scholarship program.
Section two sets an immediate effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
New York is currently experiencing a shortage of nurses. In order to
train the next generation of nurses, nursing programs at our colleges
and universities need more nurse educators on faculty. The Patricia K.
McGee Nursing Faculty Scholarship incentivizes nurses to continue their
education so that they can continue their careers as faculty. This bill
removes the current $2 million annual funding cap for the scholarship so
more nurses can avail themselves of this program.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9507
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to removing the limit on
the total annual cost of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty
scholarship program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 679-c of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by section 1 of part E-3 of chapter 57 of the laws
3 of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. [The total cost of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty
5 scholarship program shall not exceed an annual cost of two million
6 dollars, and no] No annual award shall exceed twenty thousand dollars.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14964-01-2
