New York A 2354: Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program

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A02354 Summary:

BILL NOA02354 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06399

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SPONSOREpstein

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COSPNSRSeawright, Clark, 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 NOA02354 

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01/16/2025referred to higher education

12/08/2025enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2354

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, CLARK, SIMON, COLTON, JACOB-
 SON, KELLES, CRUZ, ZINERMAN, GIBBS, RAMOS, SAYEGH, CUNNINGHAM, LEVEN-
 BERG, REYES, RAGA, FORREST -- 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 chapter 376 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 2. Duration. No undergraduate student shall be eligible for more than
 5 four academic years of study, or five academic years if the program of
 6 study normally requires five years. Students enrolled in a program of
 7 remedial study, approved by the commissioner in an institution of higher
 8 education and intended to culminate in a degree in undergraduate study
 9 shall, for purposes of this section, be considered as enrolled in a
 10 program of study normally requiring five years. An undergraduate student
 11 enrolled in an eligible two year program of study approved by the
 12 commissioner shall be eligible for no more than three academic years of
 13 study. An undergraduate student enrolled in an approved two or four-year
 14 program of study approved by the commissioner who must transfer to
 15 another institution as a result of permanent college closure shall be
 16 eligible for up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, to the
 17 extent credits necessary to complete [his or her] such undergraduate
 18 student's program of study were deemed non-transferable from the closed
 19 institution or were deemed not applicable to such student's program of
 20 study by the new institution. No graduate student shall be eligible for
 21 more than four academic years of study provided, however, that no grad-
 22 uate student shall be eligible for more than one degree program at the
 23 master's, first professional or doctorate level. No student shall be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04328-01-5

 A. 2354 2

 1 eligible for a total of more than the equivalent of eight years of
 2 combined undergraduate and graduate study. Any semester, quarter, or
 3 term of attendance during which a student receives any award under this
 4 article, after the effective date of the former scholar incentive
 5 program and prior to academic year nineteen hundred eighty-nine--nine-
 6 teen hundred ninety, shall be counted toward the maximum term of eligi-
 7 bility for tuition assistance under this section, except that any semes-
 8 ter, quarter or term of attendance during which a student received an
 9 award pursuant to section six hundred sixty-six of this subpart shall be
 10 counted as one-half of a semester, quarter or term, as the case may be,
 11 toward the maximum term of eligibility under this section. Any semester,
 12 quarter or term of attendance during which a student received an award
 13 pursuant to section six hundred sixty-seven-a of this subpart shall not
 14 be counted toward the maximum term of eligibility under this section.
 15 For the purposes of this section, an academic year shall include any
 16 optional academic semester, quarter