Extends eligibility for tuition assistance program awards for certain undergraduates who must transfer to another institution as a result of a permanent college closure by two semesters.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8110
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 30, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to eligibility for
tuition assistance program awards for certain undergraduates who must
transfer to another institution as a result of a permanent college
closure
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. An
13 undergraduate student enrolled in an approved two or four-year program
14 of study approved by the commissioner who must transfer to another
15 institution as a result of permanent college closure shall be eligible
16 for two additional semesters, or their equivalent, as determined by the
17 commissioner, in order to complete his or her program. Any semester,
18 quarter, or term of attendance during which a student receives any award
19 under this article, after the effective date of the former scholar
20 incentive program and prior to academic year nineteen hundred eighty-
21 nine--nineteen hundred ninety, shall be counted toward the maximum term
22 of eligibility for tuition assistance under this section, except that
23 any semester, quarter or term of attendance during which a student
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 received an award pursuant to section six hundred sixty-six of this
2 subpart shall be counted as one-half of a semester, quarter or term, as
3 the case may be, toward the maximum term of eligibility under this
4 section. Any semester, quarter or term of attendance during which a
5 student received an award pursuant to section six hundred sixty-seven-a
6 of this subpart shall not be counted toward the maximum term of eligi-
7 bility under this section.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
