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A09522 Summary:

BILL NOA09522 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06399-A

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SPONSORClark

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COSPNSRSeawright, Simon, Colton, Jacobson, Kelles, Cruz, Zinerman, Gibbs, Ramos, Sayegh, Cunningham,
 Levenberg, Reyes, Raga, Forrest, Gonzalez-Rojas

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §667, Ed L

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Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program by restoring eligibility to graduate students; makes optional semesters, quarters or terms eligible for awards.

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BILL NOA09522 

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01/14/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9522

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, COLTON, JACOBSON,
 KELLES, CRUZ, ZINERMAN, GIBBS, RAMOS, SAYEGH, CUNNINGHAM, LEVENBERG,
 REYES, RAGA, FORREST, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding eligibility
 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 2 of section 667 of the education law, as
 2 amended by section 5 of part D of chapter 56 of the laws of 2025, 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 up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, to the extent
 17 credits necessary to complete the student's program of study were deemed
 18 non-transferable from the closed institution or were deemed not applica-
 19 ble to such student's program of study by the new institution. No grad-
 20 uate student shall be eligible for more than four academic years of
 21 study provided, however, that no graduate student shall be eligible for
 22 more than one degree program at the master's, first professional or
 23 doctorate level. No student shall be eligible for a total of more than
 24 the equivalent of eight years of combined undergraduate and graduate
 25 study. Any semester, quarter, or term of attendance during which a
 26 student receives any award under this article, after the effective date

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04328-02-6

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 1 of the former scholar incentive program and prior to academic year nine-
 2 teen hundred eighty-nine--nineteen hundred ninety, shall be counted
 3 toward the maximum term of eligibility for tuition assistance under this
 4 section, except that any semester, quarter or term of attendance during
 5 which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
 6 sixty-six of this subpart shall be counted as one-half of a semester,
 7 quarter or term, as the case may be, toward the maximum term of eligi-
 8 bility under this section. Any semester, quarter or term of attendance
 9 during which a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred
 10 sixty-seven-a of this subpart shall not be counted toward the maximum
 11 term of eligibility under this section. For the purposes of this
 12 section, an academic year shall include any optional academic semester,
 13 quarter or term and any award made for such optional academic semester,
 14 quarter or term shall not reduce the maximum term of elig