Bill Text: NY S07713 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to student refunds; provides that no student shall demand repayment of funds where the error was an inadvertent or administrative error on the part of the corporation or other state agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S07713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07713-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7713--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and  when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Rules --
          recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education  in  accordance  with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student refunds

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 665 of the educa-
     2  tion law, as added by chapter 195 of the laws of  1980,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a.  Student  refunds.  If  a  student  receives payment as a result of
     5  administrative error by the institution or the corporation or a false or
     6  erroneous statement on [his] such  student's  application  or  financial
     7  form,  or  any  other  act  of omission or commission on the part of the
     8  student, [his] such student's spouse, or [his] such  student's  parents,
     9  such  that  the  recipient  would  otherwise have been considered by the
    10  president ineligible to receive such payment,  the  recipient  shall  be
    11  required  to  refund the improper payment to the state. Provided that no
    12  repayment shall be demanded or occur from a student, former  student  or
    13  institution  where  the error was an inadvertent or administrative error
    14  on the part of the corporation or other state agency.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and be deemed to have been
    16  in full force and effect for academic years beginning 2020--2021.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13304-02-4