STATE OF NEW YORK
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2295
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 17, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, BRESLIN, DUANE, ESPADA, KLEIN, KRUEGER,
ONORATO, OPPENHEIMER, PARKER, SAMPSON, THOMPSON -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to tuition assistance
program awards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph a of subdivi-
2 sion 3 of section 667 of the education law, as amended by section 1 of
3 part B of chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
4 (A) (1) In the case of students who have not been granted an exclusion
5 of parental income, have been granted an exclusion of parental income
6 pursuant to subdivision four of section six hundred sixty-three of this
7 part, or had a dependent for income tax purposes during the tax year
8 next preceding the academic year for which application is made:
9 (a) For students first receiving aid after nineteen hundred ninety-
10 three--nineteen hundred ninety-four and before two thousand--two thou-
11 sand one, four thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars; or
12 (b) For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-three-
13 -nineteen hundred ninety-four or earlier, three thousand five hundred
14 seventy-five dollars; or
15 (c) For students first receiving aid in [the] two thousand--two thou-
16 sand one and thereafter, five thousand dollars.
17 (2) In the case of students receiving awards pursuant to subparagraph
18 (iii) of this paragraph.
19 (a) For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-four
20 --nineteen hundred ninety-five and nineteen hundred ninety-five--nine-
21 teen hundred ninety-six and thereafter, three thousand twenty-five
22 dollars, or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-two--
2 nineteen hundred ninety-three and nineteen hundred ninety-three--nine-
3 teen hundred ninety-four, two thousand five hundred seventy-five
4 dollars, or
5 (c) For students first receiving aid in nineteen hundred ninety-one--
6 nineteen hundred ninety-two or earlier, two thousand four hundred fifty
7 dollars; or
8 § 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 667
9 of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 60 of
10 the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
11 (iii) For students who have been granted exclusion of parental income
12 pursuant to subdivision three of section six hundred sixty-three of this
13 part and were single with no dependent for income tax purposes during
14 the tax year next preceding the academic year for which application is
15 made, the base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of this para-
16 graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
17 Amount of income Schedule of reduction
18 of base amount
19 (A) Less than three thousand None
20 dollars
21 (B) Three thousand dollars or Thirty-one per centum of
22 more, but not more than ten amount in excess of three
23 thousand dollars thousand dollars
24 § 3. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 667
25 of the education law, as amended by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is
26 amended to read as follows:
27 (iii) For students who have been granted exclusion of parental income
28 pursuant to subdivision three of section six hundred sixty-three of this
29 part and were single with no dependent for income tax purposes during
30 the tax year next preceding the academic year for which application is
31 made, the base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of this para-
32 graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
33 Amount of income Schedule of reduction
34 of base amount
35 (A) Less than three thousand None
36 dollars
37 (B) Three thousand dollars or Thirty-one per centum of
38 more, but not more than ten amount in excess of three
39 thousand dollars thousand dollars
40 § 4. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 667
41 of the education law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is
42 amended to read as follows:
43 (iii) For students who have been granted exclusion of parental income
44 pursuant to subdivision three of section six hundred sixty-three of this
45 part and were single with no dependent for income tax purposes during
46 the tax year next preceding the academic year for which application is
47 made, the base amount, as determined in subparagraph (i) of this para-
48 graph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
49 Amount of income Schedule of reduction
50 of base amount
51 (A) Less than one thousand None
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1 dollars
2 (B) One thousand dollars or Twenty-six per centum of the excess
3 more, but not more than five over one thousand dollars
4 thousand six hundred sixty-
5 six dollars
6 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
