New York S 2565: Allows the higher education services corporation to consider an applicant's change in income due to the loss of employment in determining eligibility and award amount for the tuition assistance program

Status: REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 2565

Sponsors: Leroy Comrie, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Robert Jackson

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S02565 Summary:

BILL NOS02565A

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SAME ASSAME AS A07245-A

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRHOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON

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Allows the higher education services corporation to consider an applicant's change in income due to the loss of employment in determining eligibility and award amount for the tuition assistance program.

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

05/28/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

05/28/2025PRINT NUMBER 2565A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2565--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher
 Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing the higher
 education services corporation to consider an applicant's change in
 income due to the loss of employment in determining eligibility and
 award amount 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. Subdivision 5 of section 663 of the education law, as
 2 amended by section 3 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 5. a. Adjustments of income. In the determination of income for
 5 purposes of paragraphs a and b of subdivision three of section six
 6 hundred sixty-seven of this part if, during the academic year in which
 7 the applicant will receive an award, one of either the parents of the
 8 applicant or other dependent child of such parents, the spouse of the
 9 applicant, or one or more dependent children of the applicant, in addi-
 10 tion to the applicant, will be in full-time attendance in an approved
 11 program, the combined net taxable income determined under subdivision
 12 one of this section shall be reduced by three thousand dollars and an
 13 additional two thousand dollars for each other such person additional to
 14 the aforesaid persons (including the applicant) who will be in such
 15 attendance, and the resulting amount shall be deemed the applicable
 16 income in determining the applicant's award for the academic year.
 17 b. The corporation, pursuant to rules and regulations, shall consider
 18 an applicant's change in income due to the loss of employment of the
 19 applicant or parent of the applicant and utilize the applicant's income
 20 reported in New York state income tax returns for the prior calendar
 21 year in making adjustments to eligibility and the amount of the award

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04951-03-5

 S. 2565--A 2

 1 for the current academic year. The corporation may require such documen-
 2 tary evidence, testimony or affidavits as it deems sufficient in grant-
 3 ing such an adjustment of an award.
 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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