Increases the income eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program to $110,000 or the regional median income, whichever is greater; provides regional median income shall be determined by economic development region.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5717
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 15, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MURRAY -- 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 increasing the income
eligibility threshold for the tuition assistance program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of
2 section 667 of the education law, as amended by section 1 of part B of
3 chapter 60 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
4 (ii) (A) Except for students as noted in subparagraph (iii) of this
5 paragraph, the base amount as determined from subparagraph (i) of this
6 paragraph, shall be reduced in relation to income as follows:
7 Amount of income Schedule of reduction
8 of base amount
9 [(A)] (1) Less than seven thousand None
10 dollars
11 [(B)] (2) Seven thousand dollars Seven per centum of excess
12 or more, but less than eleven over seven thousand dollars
13 thousand dollars
14 [(C)] (3) Eleven thousand dollars Two hundred eighty dollars
15 or more, but less than eighteen plus ten per centum of excess
16 thousand dollars over eleven thousand dollars
17 [(D)] (4) Eighteen thousand dollars Nine hundred eighty dollar
18 or more, but not more than plus twelve per centum of
19 [eighty] one hundred ten excess over eighteen
20 thousand dollars or, the thousand dollars
21 the regional median income,
22 whichever is greater
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (B) (1) For the purposes of this subparagraph, regional median income
2 shall mean the median household income of an economic development
3 region. To determine such regional median income, the median household
4 income of each county within an economic development region shall be
5 averaged. Such median household income data shall be based on the U.S.
6 Census Data reports of median income data as based on the five most
7 recent years of median incomes as reported to the U.S. Census Bureau by
8 each county.
9 (2) For the purposes of this subparagraph, economic development region
10 shall include the same areas as described in subdivision (j) of section
11 4211.2 of title twenty-one of the New York codes, rules and regulations.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of June next succeeding
13 the date on which it shall have become a law.
