Relates to tuition assistance program awards for graduate students; establishes tuition assistance program award amounts for graduate students and limits on the number of academic years such graduate students shall be eligible.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. MOYA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to tuition assistance
program awards for graduate students
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 667 of the education law, as
2 amended by section 1 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. Duration. No undergraduate shall be eligible for more than four
5 academic years of study, or five academic years if the program of study
6 normally requires five years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial
7 study, approved by the commissioner in an institution of higher educa-
8 tion and intended to culminate in a degree in undergraduate study shall,
9 for purposes of this section, be considered as enrolled in a program of
10 study normally requiring five years. An undergraduate student enrolled
11 in an eligible two year program of study approved by the commissioner
12 shall be eligible for no more than three academic years of study. No
13 graduate student shall be eligible for more than four academic years of
14 study provided, however, that no graduate student shall be eligible for
15 more than one degree program at the master's, first professional or
16 doctorate level. No student shall be eligible for a total of more than
17 the equivalent of eight years of combined undergraduate and graduate
18 study. Any semester, quarter, or term of attendance during which a
19 student receives any award under this article, after the effective date
20 of the former scholar incentive program and prior to academic year nine-
21 teen hundred eighty-nine--nineteen hundred ninety, shall be counted
22 toward the maximum term of eligibility for tuition assistance under this
23 section, except that any semester, quarter or term of attendance during
24 which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
25 sixty-six of this subpart shall be counted as one-half of a semester,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 quarter or term, as the case may be, toward the maximum term of eligi-
2 bility under this section. Any semester, quarter or term of attendance
3 during which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
4 sixty-seven-a of this subpart shall not be counted toward the maximum
5 term of eligibility under this section.
6 § 2. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 667 of the education law,
7 as relettered by section 2 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011,
8 is relettered paragraph d and a new paragraph c is added to read as
9 follows:
10 c. Amount. The president shall make awards to graduate students in the
11 following amounts:
12 (i) For each year of graduate study, assistance shall be provided as
13 computed on the basis of the amount which is the lesser of the follow-
14 ing:
15 (A) Five hundred fifty dollars; or
16 (B) One hundred percent of the amount of tuition charged (exclusive of
17 educational fees).
18 (ii) Except for students as noted in subparagraph (iii) of this para-
19 graph, the base amount as determined in subparagraph (i) of this para-
20 graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
21 Amount of incomeSchedule of reduction of
22 base amount
23 (A) Less than two thousand dollarsNone
24 (B) Two thousand dollars or more, butSeven and seven-tenths
25 not more than twenty thousand dollarsper centum of the excess
26 over two
27 thousand dollars
28 (iii) For students who have been granted exclusion of parental income
29 and were single with no dependent for income tax purposes during the tax
30 year next preceding the academic year for which application is made, the
31 base amount as determined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, shall
32 be reduced in relation to income as follows:
33 Amount of incomeSchedule of reduction
34 of base amount
35 (A) Less than one thousand dollarsNone
36 (B) One thousand dollars or more,Twenty-six per centum of the
37 but not more than five thousandexcess over one
38 six hundred sixty-six dollarsthousand dollars
39 (iv) If the amount of reduction is not a whole dollar, it shall be
40 reduced to the next lowest whole dollar.
41 (v) The award shall be the net amount of the base amount determined
42 pursuant to subparagraph (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph but the award
43 shall not be reduced below seventy-five dollars. If the income exceeds
44 the maximum amount of income allowable under subparagraph (ii) or (iii)
45 of this paragraph, no award shall be made.
46 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 663 of the education law, as amended by
47 section 3 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
48 read as follows:
49 5. Adjustments of income. a. Except for purposes of paragraphs a and
50 b of subdivision three of section six hundred sixty-seven of this part,
51 if, during the academic year in which the applicant will receive an
52 award, one or more of either the parents of the applicant or other
53 dependent children of such parents, the spouse of the applicant, or one
54 or more dependent children of the applicant, in addition to the appli-
55 cant, will be in full-time attendance in an approved program, the
56 combined net taxable income determined under subdivision one of this
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1 section shall be divided by the total number of the aforesaid persons
2 (including the applicant) who will be in such attendance, and the
3 resulting quotient shall be deemed the applicable income in determining
4 the applicant's award for such academic year.
5 b. In the determination of income for purposes of paragraphs a and b
6 of subdivision three of section six hundred sixty-seven of this part if,
7 during the academic year in which the applicant will receive an award,
8 one of either the parents of the applicant or other dependent child of
9 such parents, the spouse of the applicant, or one or more dependent
10 children of the applicant, in addition to the applicant, will be in
11 full-time attendance in an approved program, the combined net taxable
12 income determined under subdivision one of this section shall be reduced
13 by three thousand dollars and an additional two thousand dollars for
14 each other such person additional to the aforesaid persons (including
15 the applicant) who will be in such attendance, and the resulting amount
16 shall be deemed the applicable income in determining the applicant's
17 award for the academic year.
18 § 4. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 663 of the education law,
19 as amended by section 4 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is
20 amended to read as follows:
21 a. In determining the amount of an award for graduate and undergradu-
22 ate students, the income of the parents shall be excluded if the student
23 has been emancipated from his parents.
24 § 5. The opening paragraph of subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdi-
25 vision 3 of section 663 of the education law, as amended by section 5 of
26 part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
27 The applicant is a student who was married on or before December thir-
28 ty-first of the calendar year prior to the beginning of the academic
29 year for which application is made or is an undergraduate student who
30 has reached the age of twenty-two on or before June thirtieth prior to
31 the academic year for which application is made or is a graduate
32 student, and who, during the calendar year next preceding the semester,
33 quarter or term of attendance for which application is made and at all
34 times subsequent thereto up to and including the entire period for which
35 application is made:
36 § 6. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 663 of the education law,
37 as amended by section 6 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is
38 amended to read as follows:
39 d. Any graduate or undergraduate student who was allowed to exclude
40 parental income pursuant to the provisions of subdivision three of
41 section six hundred three of this chapter as they existed prior to July
42 first, nineteen hundred seventy-four may continue to exclude such income
43 for so long as he continues to comply with such provisions.
44 § 7. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.
