Establishes a service corps education grant to be used for tuition costs or loan repayment; and provides for funding for the service corps education grant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6440
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 19, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 establishing a service
corps education grant to be used for tuition costs or loan repayment;
and to amend the executive law, in relation to funding for the service
corps education grant
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 683-C
2 to read as follows:
3 § 683-C. Tuition or loan repayment for fellowship programs. 1. Indi-
4 viduals serving in the New York state conservation corps positions
5 provided by section 3.23 of the parks, recreation and historic preserva-
6 tion law or any position otherwise deemed as a public service fellowship
7 attained upon graduation by the corporation, shall be eligible for an
8 education grant to be used for either tuition costs at eligible insti-
9 tutions of higher education or loan repayment that is at least equiv-
10 alent to the Segal education award available under the Americorps
11 program as of October first, two thousand sixteen based on duration of
12 service.
13 2. The corporation shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary
14 for the implementation of this section.
15 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 184 to read
16 as follows:
17 § 184. Replacement of funds for Americorps or fellowship programs. In
18 the event that the federal budget or continuing resolutions in force for
19 federal fiscal years two thousand seventeen or two thousand eighteen, or
20 both, or federal statutory or regulatory changes, reduce federal finan-
21 cial participation or other federal aid in funding to New York state
22 that affects the state operating funds for the Americorps Segal educa-
23 tion award or other post-graduate fellowship or service corps programs
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 funded in part or entirely by federal dollars, the director of the divi-
2 sion of the budget shall notify the temporary president of the senate
3 and speaker of the assembly in writing that the federal actions will
4 reduce expected funding to New York state. The director of the division
5 of the budget shall then authorize a suballocation or transfer of funds
6 to meet the obligations imposed by section six hundred eighty-three-C of
7 the education law and shall submit a plan to the legislature describing
8 the nature of the suballocations. The legislature shall have ninety days
9 after such submission to either prepare its own plan that provides for a
10 replacement of such funds, which may be adopted by concurrent resolution
11 passed by both houses, or if after ninety days the legislature fails to
12 adopt their own plan, the plan proposed by the director of the division
13 of the budget will go into effect automatically.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.