New York A 7938: Allows for a modest increase in annual income to not disqualify someone from the excelsior scholarship

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A07938 Summary:

BILL NOA07938 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06155-A

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Allows for a modest increase in annual income, not greater than three percent per year, to not disqualify someone from the excelsior scholarship.

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BILL NOA07938 

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04/16/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7938

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 16, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing for a modest
 increase in annual income to not disqualify someone from the excelsior
 scholarship

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 669-h of the education law, as
 2 amended by section 1 of part T of chapter 56 of the laws of 2018, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 1. Eligibility. An excelsior scholarship award shall be made to an
 5 applicant who: (a) is matriculated in an approved program leading to an
 6 undergraduate degree at a New York state public institution of higher
 7 education; (b) if enrolled in (i) a public institution of higher educa-
 8 tion prior to application, has completed at least thirty combined cred-
 9 its per year following the student's start date, or its equivalent,
 10 applicable to [his or her] their program or programs of study or (ii) an
 11 institution of higher education prior to application, has completed at
 12 least thirty combined credits per year following the student's start
 13 date, or its equivalent, applicable to [his or her] their program or
 14 programs of study and which were accepted upon transfer to a public
 15 institution of higher education; (c) enrolls in at least twelve credits
 16 per semester and completes at least thirty combined credits per year
 17 following the student's start date, or its equivalent, applicable to
 18 [his or her] their program or programs of study except in limited
 19 circumstances as prescribed by the corporation in regulation. Notwith-
 20 standing, in the student's last semester, the student may take at least
 21 one course needed to meet [his or her] their graduation requirements and
 22 enroll in and complete at least twelve credit hours or its equivalent.
 23 For students who are disabled as defined by the Americans With Disabili-
 24 ties Act of 1990, 42 USC 12101, the corporation shall prescribe rules

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10676-07-5

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 1 and regulations that allow applicants who are disabled to be eligible
 2 for an award pursuant to this section based on modified criteria; (d)
 3 for the first semester applying for such scholarship, has an adjusted
 4 gross income for the qualifying year, as such terms are defined in this
 5 subdivision, equal to or less than: (i) one hundred thousand dollars for
 6 recipients receiving an award in the two thousand seventeen--two thou-
 7 sand eighteen academic year; (ii) one hundred ten thousand dollars for
 8 recipients receiving an award in the two thousand eighteen--two thousand
 9 nineteen academic year; and (iii) one hundred twenty-five thousand
 10 dollars for recipients receiving an award in the two thousand nineteen-
 11 -two thousand twenty academic year and thereafter; and (e) complies with
 12 the applicable provisions of this article and all requirements promul-
 13 gated by the corporation for the administration of the program. Adjusted
 14 gross income shall be the total of the combined adjusted gross income of
 15 the applicant and the applicant's parents or the applicant and the
 16 applicant's spouse, if married. Qualifying year shall be the adjusted
 17 gross income as reported on the federal income tax return, or as other-
 18 wise obtained by the corporation, for the calendar year coinciding with
 19 the tax year