New York A 3709: Modifies the criteria for granting tuition assistance program awards

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A03709 Summary:

BILL NOA03709 

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Modifies the criteria for granting tuition assistance program awards.

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01/30/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3709

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. TANNOUSIS -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to TAP awards

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 667 of the education law,
 2 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 622 of the laws of 2008 and subdivi-
 3 sion 2 as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2019, are amended to
 4 read as follows:
 5 1. Recipient qualifications. Tuition assistance program awards are
 6 available for all students who are enrolled in approved programs and who
 7 demonstrate the ability to complete such courses, in accordance with
 8 standards established by the commissioner provided, however, that no
 9 award shall be made unless tuition (exclusive of educational fees) and,
 10 if applicable, the college fee levied by the state university of New
 11 York pursuant to the April first, nineteen hundred sixty-four financing
 12 agreements with the New York state dormitory authority charged for the
 13 program in which the student is enrolled total at least two hundred
 14 dollars a year, and provided further that, no award can exceed one
 15 hundred percent of the amount of tuition charged. Nothing in this
 16 section, section six hundred sixty-one of this part, or any other
 17 provision of this chapter shall be read to exclude any graduate program
 18 from classification by the commissioner as an approved program for the
 19 purposes of this section.
 20 2. Duration. No undergraduate shall be eligible for more than four
 21 academic years of study, or five academic years if the program of study
 22 normally requires five years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial
 23 study, approved by the commissioner in an institution of higher educa-
 24 tion and intended to culminate in a degree in undergraduate study shall,
 25 for purposes of this section, be considered as enrolled in a program of
 26 study normally requiring five years. An undergraduate student enrolled

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 1 in an eligible two year program of study approved by the commissioner
 2 shall be eligible for no more than three academic years of study. No
 3 graduate student shall be eligible for more than four academic years of
 4 study provided, however, that no graduate student shall be eligible for
 5 more than one degree program at the master's, first professional or
 6 doctorate level. No student shall be eligible for a total of more than
 7 the equivalent of eight years of combined undergraduate and graduate
 8 study. An undergraduate student enrolled in an approved two or four-year
 9 program of study approved by the commissioner who must transfer to
 10 another institution as a result of permanent college closure shall be
 11 eligible for up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, to the
 12 extent credits necessary to complete [his or her] their program of study
 13 were deemed non-transferable from the closed institution or were deemed
 14 not applicable to such student's program of study by the new institu-
 15 tion. Any semester, quarter, or term of attendance during which a
 16 student receives any award under this article, after the effective date
 17 of the former scholar incentive program and prior to academic year nine-
 18 teen hundred eighty-nine--nineteen hundred ninety, shall be counted
 19 toward the maximum term of eligibility for tuition assistance under this
 20 section, except