New York A 8704: Expands the New York opportunity promise scholarship to include all SUNY and CUNY approved programs which award certain associate's degrees

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A08704 Summary:

BILL NOA08704 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08356

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SPONSORLucas

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §6311, Ed L

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Expands the New York opportunity promise scholarship to include all SUNY AND CUNY approved programs which award certain associate's degrees.

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BILL NOA08704 

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05/30/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8704

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LUCAS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding the New York
 opportunity promise scholarship to include all state university of New
 York or city university of New York approved programs which award
 certain associate's degrees

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 6311 of the
 2 education law, as added by section 1 of part F of chapter 56 of the laws
 3 of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (c) is matriculated at [a community college of the state university of
 5 New York or the city university of New York, as defined in subdivision
 6 two of section sixty-three hundred one of this article or subdivision
 7 four of section sixty-two hundred two of this title, respectively,] any
 8 state university of New York or city university of New York colleges,
 9 universities, or community colleges in an approved program directly
 10 leading to an associate's degree in a high-demand field; provided that
 11 for the two thousand twenty-five -- two thousand twenty-six academic
 12 year, such fields shall include but not be limited to advanced manufac-
 13 turing, technology, cybersecurity, engineering, artificial intelligence,
 14 nursing and allied health professions, green and renewable energy, and
 15 pathways to teaching in shortage areas, provided further that such
 16 fields may be updated annually thereafter by the department of labor no
 17 later than one hundred eighty days prior to the first start date of the
 18 fall term of such state university of New York or city university of New
 19 York colleges, universities, or community colleges[,]; and provided
 20 further that the eligibility of such approved program established in the
 21 semester for which the applicant makes initial application shall contin-
 22 ue;
 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13037-03-5

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