Increases the total funding of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty scholarship program to five million dollars annually; permits awards covering the total cost of a recipient's academic program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7311
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the total
funding of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty scholarship
program and providing for increased awards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 3 of section 679-c of the
2 education law, as amended by section 1 of part E3 of chapter 57 of the
3 laws of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
4 a. equal to the [tuition] total cost charged to state resident
5 students attending a master's degree program in nursing or doctoral
6 degree program that will qualify them as nursing faculty or adjunct
7 clinical faculty at the state university of New York[; the average
8 mandatory fees charged at the state university of New York, or the actu-
9 al tuition and fees charged to the recipient, whichever is less; and the
10 average non-tuition cost of attendance, as determined by the corporation
11 and as approved by the director of the budget, for a student at the
12 state university of New York or actual non-tuition cost of attendance at
13 such institution, whichever is less], provided that the scholarship
14 shall not exceed an amount that is equal to the total cost of attendance
15 determined for federal Title IV student financial aid purposes[, less
16 all other scholarships and grants provided by New York state, other
17 states, the federal government, or other governments, and the amount of
18 educational benefits paid under any program that would duplicate the
19 purposes of this program, provided that any scholarships or grants
20 provided to a recipient by the institution which are intended to fund
21 any portion of the difference between the annual state award and the
22 actual costs of attendance at any such institution shall not be consid-
23 ered to duplicate the purposes of this program].
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10846-01-1
A. 7311 2
1 b. The total cost of the Senator Patricia K. McGee nursing faculty
2 scholarship program shall not exceed an annual cost of [two] five
3 million dollars[, and no annual award shall exceed twenty thousand
4 dollars].
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
